[Dxspider-support] Starting listeners fails, new user problem

[Dirk Koopman]

There is, almost certainly, something running on port 27754.

You should be able to see what it is by running:-

  netstat -tapn

as root.

It may even be another instance of a cluster.pl that you don't know
about...

Dirk

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:22, spatari at cc.hut.fi wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I still have this problem, although I updated yesterday to RH 8.0 with Perl 
> 5.8.0. I updated also to the latest CVS-sources. No cure :(
> 
> Could the problem be related to the networking of my standalone machine? I have 
> not configured any networking support yet. Should there be running some sort of 
> process, which would assing the requested socket?
> 
> Please help a desperate packet enthusiast,
> 
> BR de Simo OH2LRE
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> Dear fellows,
> 
> I encountered the following start-up problem. Running on RH 7.3, with perl5 
> (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1, rpm is perl-5.6.1-34.99.6) and DXSpider 
> 1.50 package. When starting the ./cluster.pl in /spider/perl I got the 
> following outcome:
> 
> $ ./cluster.pl
> Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
> DXSpider Version 1.50, build 57.052 started
> loading prefixes ...
> loading band data ...
> loading user file system ...
> starting listeners ...
> IO::Socket::INET: Cannot assign requested address
> Could not create socket: Cannot assign requested address 
> 	Msg::new_server('IntMsg', 'localhost', 27754, 'CODE(0x88ddc28)') called 
> at ./cluster.pl line 416
> 
> What have I done wrong? I have installed all the needed CPAN modules according 
> to the intallation document. I understood from CPAN FAQ that all the CPAN 
> modules which are installed properly should be mentioned in the perllocal.pod 
> file under perl lib directory. But my perllocal.pod has only the Data Dumper 
> markings on it. No mention about the other CPAN modules! Has the installation 
> of those modules failed?
> 
> During the troubleshoot of this start-up process I was considering the update 
> of perl to 5.8.0, did try it from a rpm file, but the rpm instructed me that I 
> should update also other rpms libc.so.6 etc... but as my system is a standalone 
> without internet connection it is so frustrating to burn CDs everyday at 
> work ;) I wonder if there would be an easy way to fix this problem.
> 
> For your information I am a new user for DXSpider and relatively new linux user 
> too. Though I have managed an original PacketCluster DOS-version node for ages.
> 
> Your help is appreciated,
> Simo OH2LRE, op. at OH2K
> 
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