I am running as a root user. I am very much aware that a non-privileged user can't access some functions. But again, I am running centos from my oracle virtualbox. I hope the virtual machine is not a factor? ------Original Message------ From: lists-centos To: adekunleadekoya@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Apache : Listen on ports other than 80 Sent: Sep 28, 2012 9:45 PM ------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 01:41:46 PM -0700 > From: John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Apache : Listen on ports other than 80 > > On 09/28/12 1:30 PM, adekunleadekoya@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I saw this error msg : 'permission denied:make_sock : could not >> bind to address 0.0.0.0:1010. No listening sockets >> available,shutting down' . > > is another process listening on 1010 ? > > netstat -an |grep :1010 > > look for lines with LISTEN on the end ... or, are you trying to start apache from a non-privileged user? ports through 1024 are reserved and only root can bind processes to them. - Richard Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos