Strange problem

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 <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> 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