On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:35:33PM -0300, Valdomiro Kornetz wrote:
> Hy everyone,
>
> I'm trying to put a rsync service to work, via inetd, on my FreeBSD
> 4.3 stable, but all I got was an (from rsyncd.log)
>
> 2001/06/11 12:09:46 [20857] rsyncd version 2.4.6 starting
> 2001/06/11 12:09:46 [20857] bind failed on port 873
> 2001/06/11 12:09:46 [20857] transfer interrupted (code 10) at
> socket.c(254)
>
> It's odd cause I can actually start rsync without adding it to
> services or inetd.conf, just by tiping rsync --daemon at the prompt.
>
> Any guesses??
You don't mention if you've eliminated the obvious guesses:
Guess 1: something else is already listening on the port. Could be you
had it in inetd.conf, then deleted it, but didn't send a kill
signal to inetd. Check netstat.
Guess 2: you're not running as root.
- Dave Dykstra
