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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IRC on NeXT
Message-ID: <1253@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 30 Jan 91 01:35:33 GMT
References: <910029.092207.sig@SCrossland> <7923@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <7923@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>But I have /usr/local/irc/ircd & in there and it works just fine.

I prefer
	echo exec /usr/local/irc/ircd|su -f daemon &

There's no good reason for ircd to run as root, and I won't
certify that it won't misbehave if you let it.

					-=EPS=-