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   Message 1,130 of 2,762   
   mark lewis to Jeff Smith   
   BBBSD and Ubuntu?   
   03 Feb 15 05:58:56   
   
    On Mon, 02 Feb 2015, Jeff Smith wrote to All:   
      
    JS> I am having some issues getting the BBBSD daemons to load on my   
    JS> Linux (Ubuntu) box. I can load BBBS fine. But when I try to load   
    JS> the BBBSD daemon(s) I get the response from Ubuntu that "Can't   
    JS> bind() socket. Service already running?".   
      
   if you are not running bbbsd as root, you can't bind sockets <1024... this is   
   pretty standard in today's *nixes due to security and to prevent users from   
   running unauthorized servers on the standard ports...   
      
   with that said, are you trying to start your bbbsd from startup scripts during   
   the boot process? if so, then root should be the user that is starting it and   
   it should switch to its user and group after binding the ports...   
      
    JS> I did some checking and BBBSD is not already running. I can't see    
    JS> anything obvious that tells me that anything is loaded that is    
    JS> using the ports 21, 23, 80, 24554. I see via ps aux and netstat    
    JS> that a number of items get loaded on startup. Any thoughts or    
    JS> suggestions?   
      
     sudo netstat -taupen | grep -E -e ":(21|23|80|24554) "   
      
   that'll tell you what is on any of those ports... you'll want a wide (>100)   
   terminal to see it nice and clear without any wrapping...   
      
    JS> It has been awhile since I ran Linux. Back then it was FreeBSD.    
    JS> So I am going through a learning curve here.   
      
    :)   
      
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