Dexter's questions

Is there any reason paths are still limited to ~250 characters in Windows? I'm not asking about a solution here (since there isn't one, other than \\?\ perhaps), but about why this is still an issue in 2012.

Microsoft itself has failed to provide an explanation, so I'm hoping that maybe someone here, who has more insight into this than me, can provide an answer.

Also, if \\?\ is supposed to be the "cure" to this, why aren't paths implicitly converted to the \\?\ notation by Microsoft's own programs?

Is there anything that enables a "telnet-like" functionality for UDP? I know the difference between TCP and UDP, and why telnet itself won't work - but I'm wondering if there is something similar to the telnet client, from the end-user perspective. E.g. udp-telnet [ip] [sending-port] [receiving-port] which then prints out wether a packet made it back or not.

Having a tool like this would proove helpful for testing out firewall settings for OpenVPN which uses UDP connections.

I changed the ports in the listen section (just added a 1 in front of them) in the /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg, but after a

/etc/init.d/ejabberd restart

The server still listens on the original ports. Am I doing anything wrong here?

Also the server doesn't seem to start up when the firewawall-rules are set. How Is that possible given that the firewall rules affect only eth0, not localhost/127.0.0.1?

I configured postfix on my box to call a php script on incoming e-mails, using virtual aliases. The script is being called, but it runs as "nobody" and thus I can't send signals to another program from my script that runs as a real user.

I found the setting default_privs and set it to the user that runs the program I want to signal, and this works, but that still allows me to signal only programs of that one user.

How can I solve this? I guess putting root in default_privs and having the called script su into the appropriate user account would be a stupid move, but what alternatives are there?

Is there any information on the safety/security of PsyBNC? The software/source itself seems to not have been changed since 2005.

Or is there any other multiserver capable BNC?