Strange things happening with jails?? Not starting up on boot or services not running inside!

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com> (from Thu, 3 Jun  
2010 22:04:44 +0000):

> I've never had to make Squid listening on port 80, but referring its  
> startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/:
>
> # squid_user:   The user id that should be used to run the Squid master
> #               process. Default: squid.
> #               Note that you probably need to define "squid_user=root" if
> #               you want to run Squid in reverse proxy setups or if you want
> #               Squid to listen on a "privileged" port < 1024.
>
> So you only need to write the following line in /etc/rc.conf to have  
> Squid listening on this privileged port:
> squid_user="root"

An alternative is to change the sysctl  
net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh. By lowering it, other users than  
root are allowed to bind to ports <1023 (the system prevents non-root  
binds to the port X in the range reservedlow <= X <= reservedhigh).

Bye,
Alexander.

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