Bug#616719: client connections not possible if running as non-root

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Here is the tail end of a system strace when the dictionary server is running from inetd: 13738 open("/usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 19 13738 fstat64(19, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10757105, ...}) = 0 13738 mmap2(NULL, 10757105, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 19, 0)

Bug#616719: client connections not possible if running as non-root

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: dictd Severity: normal Tags: squeeze The dictionary server no longer accepts client connections, if run as non-root (even from localhost). A tail on a system trace reveals: 13478 read(21, "# Internet (IP) protocols\n#\n# Upd"..., 1024) = 1024 13478 close(21) = 0