[Dxspider-support] DXspider under Debian

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Dirk is correct in that you need to run as root to access port 23 (or 
any port less than 1023) on most all Linux distros.  What I do is 
redirect port 23 to 7300 with the firewall and let DXSpider listen on 
7300 running as user sysop.  It can be done with iptables as well, but I 
have no clue what the proper syntax is for Debian.  Google for iptables 
port redirect and see if you can find an example.

Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Oleg Chernyawski wrote:
>   
>> I just migrate from Slackware to a Debian Sarge, trying to set up a 
>> spider again and got next:
>>
>> sysop at uu1dx:/spider/perl$ ./cluster.pl
>> DXSpider V1.52, build 61.489 started
>> Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>> loading prefixes ...
>> US Database loaded
>> loading band data ...
>> loading user file system ...
>> starting listeners ...
>> Internal port: localhost 27754 using IntMsg
>> IO::Socket::INET: Permission denied
>> Could not create socket: Permission denied
>>         Msg::new_server('ExtMsg', 212.110.131.167, 23, 
>> 'CODE(0x845a674)') called at ./cluster.pl line 401
>> Could not create socket: Permission denied
>>
>>
>> but runs OK as root, where am I wrong?
>>     
>
> I don't know how you have ever managed to run this on a linux or unix 
> box as a normal user. You can only bind to ports less than 1024 if you 
> are root. It has been like that for as long as I can remember.
>
> IIRC it mentions something about this in the installation manual. That 
> is we I use port 7300 as standard.
>
> Dirk
>
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