From: jon+vserver_at_silicide.dk
Date: Mon 31 Mar 2003 - 10:28:12 BST
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:12:44AM +0200, Max Jakob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a box with Linux 2.4.20ctx-16 running and I want to use it with
> NIS. But there occured the problem that NIS won't be running because the
> portmapper dies immediately after start. If I start the portmapper
> manually with the command "portmap -d" I get the error message:
> portmap[26158]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use
>
> What's the reason for that and how to fix it?
Well, it does say "Address already in use", so this would
mean that the addresss the portmapper is running at is
already used by another process. This might be in another
vserver... Do you use the same IP for all your vservers ?
JonB