Hey, How do you close the console? And, can you share the command with the list please. For some reason replying on this list does so to the sender and not to the list by default. So the list didn't receive the reply you did. Quintin Beukes On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Adriana Rodean <adrya1984@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is some more info after little investigation :) > > Message i get is: "Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 1026" > > SSH makes connection but port isn't opened and in server logs i see: > > IPP-Linux:~# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 18722 > Oct 19 13:37:20 IPP-Linux sshd[18722]: error: bind: Address already in use > Oct 19 13:37:20 IPP-Linux sshd[18722]: error: > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 1026 > IPP-Linux:~# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 18737 > Oct 19 13:37:47 IPP-Linux sshd[18737]: error: bind: Address already in use > Oct 19 13:37:47 IPP-Linux sshd[18737]: error: > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 1026 > > But i closed the previous console with ssh listening to that port, and > is no ssh process on client when i want to connect again on the same > port. So how come it still says that port is in use on server? > > This happens in only 2% of the cases, very rare, i change nothing in > the way i connect or close the client, but somehow it seems that port > still hangs on server after closing ssh console ... or at least that's > what sshd says because with "netstat -an" i don't see that port busy > > Thank you Rabbi for that command, next time when it happens i'll use it :) > > Thanks, > Adriana >