Re: Port designations

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 04:23:58PM -0400, Red Valsen wrote: > While installing IDS 7.30.UC2 on Solaris 2.6 on x86, we encountered a > failure when initializing the instance with the following error messages > in the Informix message file: > > 11:28:37 listener-thread: err = -25572: oserr = 0: errstr = : Network> driver cannot bind a name to the port. > 11:28:37 Attempting to bring listener thread down > 11:28:37 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down> > The sqlhosts file was correctly configured, referencing the right > instance/protocol/server/service. DBSERVERNAME, SERVERNUM and NETTYPE > were set correctly in the ONCONFIG file. In /etc/services, service > "ifmx_tcp" used port "tcp/1525". It wasn't until the port number was > changed -- to 1526 -- and the box rebooted that Informix came up > normally. Port 1525 wasn't defined elsewhere in the file. > > Why didn't the original port number work? Why did resetting it work? > Is there a way to get Unix to tell me what ports are currently active? > Is there a way to "remap" the ports without rebooting e.g., by > re-instantiating inet.d? You can see what ports are currently in use using 'netstat -a' (or netstat -an to get numeric output) command. You can get out of use a port by stopping the server program that listens on it. And not all programs listens to TCP ports through inetd. If this is a program that listen to a port through inetd you just have to comment the entry for this program in /etc/inetd.conf (or you have to change the first field port number) and restart inetd by sending it a HUP signal. Hope this helps, Octav -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com