On Jun 17, 2001, "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk 
>--with-portrange=800,830 --with-udpportrange=800,830

> however, after using tcpdump, i find out that it use udp port 800,830, but tcp port 
>3xxxx. could somebody tell me why?! thanks.

Another issue is that a process must be running as root to get a
privileged (<1024) port.  The Amanda server, when connecting to a
client port, is not running as root, so it can't get a privileged
port.

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