[SunHELP] Running Oracle Forms in Port 80 other than root

[Ben Ricker]

Any ports under 1027 cannot be bound to by any other user besides Root
or a root equivalent user. Port 80 is usually used by httpd (Apache) but
there that answerbook server might take that..but I doubt it.

When you do a 'netstat -a' do you see anything listening on port 80? Or
saying 'www'?

Ben Ricker
System Administrator
US-Rx, Inc.

On 30 Mar 2001 08:27:01 -0800, Duncan, Rosemarie A (NITC) wrote:
> Assistance needed please.....
> I am running Oracle Forms Server on a Solaris 2.6 machine.  It is now in
> port 9000, but because of some DOD requirements, I have to now run the
> service on port 
> 80.  However, the only way I can do this is if I run the service as root.
> I have called in Oracle for this issue, but they advised me to also look for
> answers from the 
> UNIX community as to why root has taken exclusive use of port 80.  There are
> no other services that I can see in the machine that is using port 80.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Rose Duncan
> Computer Specialist - DBA
> Navfac Information Technology Center (NITC)
> 
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