On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:40 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:29:09 -0500 > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A RELENG_6 kernel from May 21 works fine with skype but boot a newer > > kernel and skype seems to be blocking port 80. Apache logs show > > nothing. I can find no logs errors anywhere but a telnet to port 80 > > answers with what would seem to be binary chars. I close skype and > > all is back to normal. I had originally thought that it had to do > > with the new xorg installation but it seems to be something in the > > kernel. The configurations were the same, basically GENERIC with all > > the pf stuff. > > Hi, > > Skype has an option to listen on tcp/80 and tcp/443 for incoming connections, > because it assumes somehow that firewalls will be configured to allow that > traffic in (some Windowze world assumption, i guess). > > In the tools menu, go to Options, Advanced, untick the option that reads "Use > port (sic) 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections". > > Apply, exit skype, restart it. > > confirm with > > sockstat -4 | grep skype | grep \*:80 > > that skype is NOT listening on port 80 (you shouldn't see any output back from > that cmd) ( similar for 443) >
Doesn't this imply that the OP was running Skype as root?
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