On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:44:48AM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to ircd to run as a non-root user but it doesn't seem to run
> > and there aren't any debugging or other error messages. I modified the
> > rc.ircd file to look like so:
> > [...]
>
> Well, AFAIK IRC uses TCP port 194 and hence the daemon
> has to be started as root in order to listen to the port...
IRC has an assigned port number of 194, but nobody uses it to avoid
running the irc server as root.
Instead almost all IRC servers use port 6667.
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