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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Compiling NCSA httpd v1.4
Date: 11 May 1995 13:35:57 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Keywords: httpd NCSA port

In article <3opp1m$cl@owl.und.ac.za>, Ewan McPhail <chops@kestrel.ugrd.und.ac.za> wrote:
>
>However, the httpd reports "httpd: could not bind to port 80
>			    bind: Address already in use"
>on stdout when executed. What's already using the port?

    Are you sure there aren't any open connections left from the httpd
that was running before?  Do a "netstat -f inet" and see if you have
any connections under "Local Address" still bound to port 80.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org