[Xitami] How to find user of port on linux?
Ewen McNeill
xitami@lists.xitami.org
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:44:09 +1300
In message <200112271429125.SM00191@there>, Bob Paddock writes:
>I just buld Xitami on my Mandrake 8.1 linux box.
>When I try to start it up it tells me that port 80 and 81 are already in use,
>which is news to me.
If you're running a webserver on a linux system and want to use the
standard ports (80, etc), then you need to start the webserver as root
-- only root has the ability to open those ports.
I suspect you'll find that's what's going on, rather than that there is
some other program using those ports.
Ewen
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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation www.imatix.com