[hobbit] Strange problem

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Thu Feb 17 23:40:35 CET 2005


It was Henrik that dispensed his usual accurate advice, but I was going 
to suggest that probably an older version of bb or hobbit was running ;-)

-Charles

kevin grady wrote:

>Thanks Charles. Now that I've exposed my utter stupidity. Someone
>(that someone would be ME a few months ago) had installed big SISTER
>on this machine and yes it was running on port 1984. Bye-bye bs ,
>hello hobbit.
>
>Thanks again. Everything is running with green smiles...
>
>
>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:15:21 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:56:18PM -0500, kevin grady wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I verified that the host exists in bb-hosts. This is what I get in the
>>>log when I attempt to start hobbit. I've checked permissions and
>>>anything else I could think of, but nothing looks out of place.
>>>
>>>Log entries:
>>>
>>>2005-02-17 17:54:36 Task hobbitd started with PID 4085
>>>2005-02-17 17:54:36 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
>>>2005-02-17 17:54:36 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use)
>>>2005-02-17 17:54:36 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
>>>      
>>>
>>Well, something is using port 1984 then.
>>
>>What does a "netstat -na | grep 1984" say ?
>>
>>If this is a Linux box, try running (as root) "netstat -ntlp | grep 1984"
>>That should give you the proces-ID and name of the program listening
>>on port 1984.
>>
>>
>>Henrik
>>
>>    
>>
>



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