From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 12:13:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA04304 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 12:13:05 -0700 Received: from alpha.enc.edu (alpha.enc.edu [199.93.252.250]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA04297 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 12:13:01 -0700 Received: by alpha.enc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 rev 11/30/94) id AA28046; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:10:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:10:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" To: Chael Hall Cc: questions list FreeBSD Subject: Re: bootpd weirdness In-Reply-To: <199508111906.OAA16955@chaos.taylored.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Chael Hall wrote: > Charles N. Owens typed: > > > >I've used bootp quite a bit with other Unixes, and I've played with FBSD > >back in the 2.0-xxx-SNAP days and had little trouble.... > > > >Today, I tried to fire up bootpd on my 2.0.5-RELEASE system, and I get > >the following message: > > bootpd: error(3): bind: Address already in use > > > >I get this regardles off what my /etc/bootptab looks like. (even if it's > >empty) This has let me to conclude that the problem is NOT in my > >bootptab. > > > >Any idea what the problem is? > >thanks, > > That means that bootpd is already running or something (like inetd) is > bound to that port already. Or you are not root when you try to start it > up. Hmmmm.... pardon my ignorance, but how do I fix this? Is there a way to get a list of the current port bindings, so I can find out what it is? thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------