On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:17 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 22:39 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to > > > address [::]:80 > > > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address > > > > > Which shows nothing Listening on port 80. One again FC6 has done me in. > > > Any explanations? > > > > It's not FC6's fault :-) > > > > The behavior is to do with a TCP connection that was made to the server > > while it was alive, that hangs around for some time, 60 seconds or > > whatever after the connection was closed on one side... that is what it > > is meant to do. > > > > If you amend your netstat to just -n and grep on :80, you should see the > > client connection shown in TIME_WAIT. After the timeout completes, you > > will be able to start Apache again. > > > > -Andy > > > That is an interesting explanation but this error occurred the first > time I tried to start Apache so the connection was never opened in the > first place. netstat -n |grep :80 > returns nothing. Try "netstat -anp". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
