Subj : Re: Can't start telnet server...
To   : Shurato
From : Avon
Date : Tue Jul 09 2024 08:19 pm

On 09 Jul 2024 at 01:52a, Shurato pondered and said...
 
 Sh> I'm getting the following:
 Sh> 01:33:21 MANAGER  Starting event system
 Sh> °³ 01:33:21 MANAGER  Starting 1 server(s)
 Sh> °³ 01:33:21 TELNET   Unable to open IPV4 port: Error -1 (13)
 Sh> °³ 01:33:21 TELNET   Unable to open IPV6 port: Error -1 (13)
 Sh> °³ 01:33:21 MANAGER  Cryptlib not detected; SSL/SSH capabilities disabled
 Sh> °³ 01:33:21 EVENT    Starting 0 event(s)
 Sh> 
 Sh> I used the install utility, but I don't know what I need to do to enable
 Sh> the telnet server to open the port.  I checked the wiki to no avail. 
 Sh> FAQ too. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (24.04 was way too unstable for me) in
 Sh> a VMWare VM under a Windows 10 Pro 64Bit Host.  I'm not worried about
 Sh> the cryptlib error, I'm just running this to start my BBS under Linux.
 Sh> 

I would not worry about the cryptlib error to start with as that can be resolved by installing the correct Cryptlib dll ... the wiki has a section about this.

As for the Telnet port, is it a case of not enough privileges, when you start mis server do you run it with elevated privileges using sudo? It will need those to bind to the lower numbered ports.

[snip]

  When running in Linux/macOS keep in mind that by default the operating
  system will not let a service bind to a port less than 1025 unless it is a
  ROOT user (in Linux) and NOT AT ALL in MacOS.

  In Linux, MIS has the ability to switch from root back to whatever the user
  and group is that owns the executable AFTER it binds to the ports it needs
  for the server.  So in Linux you can simply do a:

    sudo ./mis

  Or if you want to run it as a DAEMON you can do:

    sudo ./mis -d

  As mentioned, it will not run as root.  It will only use root to immediately
  bind the ports and then it will switch to the user who owns the executable.

  There are other ways to reconfigure Linux to allow a specific user to bind to
  ports less than 1024 but that is not yet covered in this documentation.


[snip]

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