Re: Permission denied when assigning a port

From: <nettmaster_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:49:46 GMT
Message-ID: <7a69o9$51q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

You need to have root permission to allocate any port (I believe) 1024 or less. On the version of OWAS 3 that I was running, there wasn't a setuid in place on the owsctl command, so it had to be run as root.

Try that.

...jeff

In article <36C67CB3.C6774A97_at_barron.com>,   Keith/Suzane Barron <keith_at_barron.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Running OWAS 3.0.2 on Linux (RH 5.1).
>
> Changed port # in httpd.conf file from 80 to 81 and verified that Apache
> web server was indeed responding to requests on port 81.. Added OWAS
> listener for port 80 called 'www.barron.com' using the '/ows-abin'
> interface. Then tried to start up the listener and got the following
> message:
>
> OWS-05721: The Web Listener www failed to start:
>
> Oracle Web Listener 3.0.2 Production (Export), Version 2.14FC1
> Copyright 1997 Oracle Corp. All Rights Reserved.
>
> Error: A failure occurred ( Permission denied ) when assigning a port
> ( domain:
> www.barron.com., address: 0.0.0.0,
> port: 80 ).
> Error: Failed to start the server.
> Error: The server could not initialize
> Information: The server is exiting
> OWS-08811: Unable to startup Oracle Web Listener `www'.
>
> Help!
>
>

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jeff grant, it manager, nettwerk productions http://www.nettwerk.com http://www.nettweb.com mailto:nettmaster_at_my-dejanews.com

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