Something else is listening on port 443 and is "geting to the port first" sudo /usr/sbin/lsof | grep LISTEN | grep -w https you should get something like httpd 5196 apache 4u IPv4 19969357 0t0 TCP smew.comp.uvic.ca:https (LISTEN) That wil lbe the process that is "using" the port. If nothing shows up then a different process of trouble shooting will need to be taken. Evna. ________________________________________ From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of James McDonald [jmcdonald@LCE.com] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 8:33 AM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng service not starting There are other syslog-ng servers configured this way in our environments but I am only having problems with this particular one. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I tried rebooting to clear any connections and re-establish a new one, but I still get the error after a reboot. I tested restarting the service on another syslog-ng server and it worked fine. -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Sandor Geller Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:13 AM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng service not starting On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM, James McDonald <jmcdonald@lce.com> wrote:
I returned from being out of the office for week and realized something was "off" with syslog-ng. I was unable to restart the service. I did a 'service syslog-ng status' and it says it's stopped. When I try 'service syslog-ng start' I get the following error:
Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:443)', error='Address already in use (98)'
listening on port 443 is unusual for syslog, usually https servers are bound to it so you should check / update your config ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq