Re: Failure to bind to port 10000 on Solaris 8

[Freddie C. <fc...@sd...>]

On March 17, 2003 10:23 am, Anthony Gunia wrote:
> OK...I changed the port settings in miniserv.conf to port 902, and it
> now works.  I got this idea from reading the following from a URL I
> found via Google:
>
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200105/webmin.html
>
> What I still don't understand is why it won't talk with port 10000? 
> I ran nmap against the server, and do see that port 10000 is open
> with the service snet-sensor-mgmt, and now port 902 is open with an
> unknown service, which I presume is webmin.  Any thoughts on what is
> going on?  Just would like to find out why this happened to get
> broke.  Thanks!

You answered your question right there.  There was already something 
bound to port 10000, thus webmin couldn't bind to it.  You can only 
have 1 service per port.

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