Re: Sockets on FreeBSD Mac OS X

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:02, Devon Weller wrote: > Has anyone successfully gotten socket functions to work with FreeBSD? > More specifically, Mac OS X? > > I always get the following error: Can't bind to port 12345, exiting. > > The script works fine on Linux machines. Is there a patch in the works > for FreeBSD? If so, I would be very happy. There's a known trojan (netbus?) that operates on 12345. That's not your problem is it? Do a netstat -an on the machine and see if that port IS in use. Cheers, Brad -- Brad Hubbard Congo Systems 12 Northgate Drive, Thomastown, Victoria, Australia 3074 Ph: +61-3-94645981 Fax: +61-3-94645982 Mob: +61-419107559