Have a look at this--should be the top post:
http://forums.eqemu.net/showthread.p...p;pagenumber=2
This fix should be in the next release.
Chat suffers from a similar issue. Also, the default is to build a full login server--you might want to use minilogin--I posted the necessary updates in:
http://forums.eqemu.net/showthread.p...p;threadid=457
The next release should address most of the known linux-specific issues w/building 0.2.3.