[NBLUG/talk] Cannot bind to a port

[E Frank Ball]

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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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us