[ale] Bind Error

[Joe Steele]

For starters, take a look in your /etc/inittab for a line 
that begins "ld:".  That will tell you the program which is 
failing to run because of the "Address already in use" error.  
Knowing the offending program will help narrow down the 
possible causes for the error.

Just guessing, I'd suspect it's related to starting an X 
session with xdm, since that involves binding of socket 
addresses.  Other common things that are respawned are mgetty 
and mingetty, but I don't think they mess with sockets.

Running "netstat -ap" would show you what addresses are in 
use, and what programs are using them.  Addresses that are in 
the listen state are most likely the ones of interest.  

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Josh Freeman [SMTP:josh at crt.gatech.edu]
Sent:	Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:40 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] Bind Error

Hey guys,
	I'm getting an error that I don't quite understand. This is
popping up on my console about every 6 or 7 minutes. Any help would
be appreciated. 

bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
bind: Address already in use
INIT: Id "ld" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Thanks,

Josh
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Josh Freeman
System Support I
Center for Rehabilitation Technology, Georgia Tech
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