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!!!Address already in use
-This error means an address is already in use, this is frequently due to a network port or socket being already claimed by another process. You can't have two processes listen on the same port unless they actively cooperate to do so. For example, when starting apache a second time without closing down the first connection you get in the logs:
+This error means an address is already in use, this is frequently due to a network port or socket being already claimed by another process. You can't have two processes listen on the same IP address/
port pair at the same time
unless they actively cooperate to do so. For example, when starting apache a second time without closing down the first connection you get in the logs:
Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80
You can tell whats listening on a port by using:
netstat -ap
(see netstat(8) for more information)
-kill(1) the program thats
listening on that port and try again.
+kill(1) the other
program that is
listening on that port and try again.
-Usually you get this error when starting
a program when another copy of the same program
is already running.
+Usually you get this error when trying to start
a daemon that
is already running.
