On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Orion on Linux? I've got it installed and
> running as root.
>
> I've also create an orion user & group to run the server, but when I start
> the server as the user 'orion' it won't allow me to start the httpd daemon -
> has anyone done this? is everyone just running it as root? ;)
If you want it to bind to port 80, then yes you have to run it as root.
The reason for this is that Unix doesn't allow any other user than root to
open ports with number 1023 and lower.
This is true for all servers running on Unix.
