[mythtv-users] 2 busted issues Myth .18

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Thu May 26 18:28:17 UTC 2005


Michael J. Lynch wrote:

> Ed Hills wrote:
>
>>
>> It looks as though my next challenge is getting this socket to bind and
>> I truly am clueless on that one.  As far as I can tell, all the security
>> is off and the ip is set correctly.
>>
>
> A bind failure results from the port already being in use.  Do
> a "netstat -a -n --tcp | grep 6543" and see if you get a hit that
> shows "LISTEN".  If so, you've got something running that is
> already listening on the port.  There is a command that you can
> use to find out what program is using it but I don't recall off
> hand what it is.

lsof:

lsof | grep 6543
mythbacke  2943   mythtv   10u     IPv4       5882                 TCP 
*:6543 (LISTEN)


Tom


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