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. and: fuser -a -n tcp 80 returns: 80/tcp: Anyone have any further ideas? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
