[jadmin] jabber server fails to start when configured for ports below 1024 (debian sarge)

[Sergei Golovan]

On 8/16/06, oleg rodionov <orodionov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All ports up to 1024 are privileged ports and need root privileges to
> > bind to. Your jabber server probably doesn't run as root, which is a
> > Good Thing (tm).
>
> It appears all the root priviligies in the world can't make this this
> thing listen to priviliged port 110  on Debian ! It worked fine on
> Radhat system

It might be that another application uses port 110 which is standardized for
POP3 protocol.

>
> As I mentioned above,   it is useless to me unless I can make it
> listen to one of the priviliged ports open on my "mail-only" internet
> wireless package.

In any case it's better not to run jabberd as root. It's better to
make it listening port 5222 and redirect chosen privileged port to
5222 (e.g. by iptables).

-- 
Sergei Golovan