Subj : recycling telnet server
To   : Ragnarok
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 02:02 am

  Re: recycling telnet server
  By: Ragnarok to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Discu on Tue Oct 04 2005 03:44 am

 > hi i have this message in mi log
 > Oct  4 02:23:20 scarlet synchronet:      0007 !ERROR 98 binding Telnet
 > Server socket to
 > port 23
 > Oct  4 02:23:20 scarlet synchronet:      0007 Will retry in 15 seconds (1 of
 > 2)
 > Oct  4 02:23:35 scarlet synchronet:      0007 !ERROR 98 binding Telnet
 > Server socket to
 > port 23
 > Oct  4 02:23:35 scarlet synchronet:      0007 Will retry in 15 seconds (2 of
 > 2)
 > Oct  4 02:23:50 scarlet synchronet:      0007 !ERROR 98 binding Telnet
 > Server socket to
 > port 23
 > Oct  4 02:23:50 scarlet synchronet:      !Another application or service may
 > be using th
 > is port
 > Oct  4 02:23:50 scarlet synchronet:      BBS System thread terminating
 > Oct  4 02:23:50 scarlet synchronet:      BBS System thread terminated (0
 > threads remain,
 >  2 clients served)
 > 
 > but the rest of bbs process are still running
 > can i recycle the telnet server in this case to check to rebind the port
 > again?

Sure, but it's unlikely to rebind if something else truly is using the port
already. See http://synchro.net/docs/tcpip_faq.html for more on this.

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