netwiork server bind failure (98: address already in use)

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:37:57PM -0800, mike wrote:
> nsca is a damon for use with nagios, the freeway monitoring system.
> 
> that command returned nothing to me as root.  what does that mean?

That means that no process appears to have that port occupied.

> ps axu |
> grep nsca doesn't return anything either.
> 
> why can i not find if this nsca daemon is running or not?

Well, I'd say that your "ps axu | grep nsca" tells you it's not.

How is it getting started?

Try starting it by hand.  Check /var/log/messages for clues.

Cheers,
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