httpd driving me crazy.

[Andy Green]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

> Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to
> address [::]:80
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address

> Which shows nothing Listening on port 80. One again FC6 has done me in.
> Any explanations? 

It's not FC6's fault :-)

The behaviour is to do with a TCP connection that was made to the server 
while it was alive, that hangs around for some time, 60 seconds or 
whatever after the connection was closed on one side... that is what it 
is meant to do.

If you amend your netstat to just -n and grep on :80, you should see the 
client connection shown in TIME_WAIT.  After the timeout completes, you 
will be able to start Apache again.

-Andy