[NBLUG/talk] Cannot bind to a port

[Todd Cary]

Frank -

This is looking like a permissions problem, but I am not sure how to 
track it down:

Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address
[::]:1023
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

Todd

E Frank Ball wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:56:51AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
>} Back from a business trip and trying to get httpd started.  The 
>} httpd.conf has a "listen line":
>} 
>} # Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
>} # prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
>} #
>} #Listen 12.34.56.78:80
>} Listen *:81
>} 
>} Could I have a permissions problem?
>} 
>}         Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not 
>} bind to  address [::]:81
>} 
>} Todd
>
>You are doing this as root?
>You could try a port >1023 and see if that works.
>
>  
>

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