On 06/06/2013 02:05 PM, Xenophod wrote:

Everything everyone already said about low ports being reserved is true. On a Linux host, you can use the capabilities system to give a program permission to listen on these lower ports, without giving them full root access. The command will look something like:

# setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep" /usr/local/sbin/ngircd

See the setcap man page for details. After you do this, you'll be able to start your daemon on reserved ports.

Hope this helps,