Re: Socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied') errors

[Drew M. <dr...@th...>]

On Tue, September 27, 2005 06:39, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Drew Marshall, on 2005-09-25, wrote:
>
>>   self.socket.sendto(mac_msg_str, 0, address)
>> socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied')
>>
>> Now clearly the last line is significant. I have run this as root so
>> it's not (Or shouldn't be) a permissions problem with files or
>> directories and as root I shouldn't have issues with binding to low
>> numbered ports, which was one suggestion from Google.
>
> Interesting.  Given you're getting an EACCES error (13 is EACCES on Lin=
ux,
> and I'm assuming it's likewise on FreeBSD), my best guess is that you h=
ave
> a firewall setup which might be disallowing pyzor to use a UDP port to
> send messages.

Frank

Thanks for your help. This *shouldn't* be the case but I won't discount
anything at this stage. Which UDP port(s) does Pyzor use/ should I allow?

Regards

Drew


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