From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 07:24:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10408 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smoke.microwiz.com (smoke.microwiz.com [206.100.22.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA10398 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jpm.microwiz.com (jpm.microwiz.com [206.100.22.140]) by smoke.microwiz.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA00242 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:25:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199604171425.HAA00242@smoke.microwiz.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "John McNamee" Organization: MicroWizards To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:25:50 PST Subject: "File exists" error when adding route for local machine Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I get the error message "Writing to routing socket: File exists" every time my system boots. This has been happening ever since I installed 2.1R, so it isn't anything I've broken by hacking since then. The error is in response to the command "route add smoke.microwiz.com localhost" generated in /etc/netstart. smoke.microwiz.com is the official name of my machine (it is what hostname is set to in /etc/sysconfig, and is what a reverse DNS lookup on my IP address would produce). Everything appears to work fine despite this error, but I'd like to know what the problem is and try to correct it. -- John McNamee MicroWizards Software Development Services Voice: 702-825-3535 / FAX: 702-825-3443