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From: yaroslav@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Yaroslav Faybishenko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: [[HELP]] !!!!!!!  httpd error
Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:23:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Kair-Chuan Lim (dh950@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:


: Hi Unix gurus,

: Please help .....  I was trying to set up slip dialinand changed the
: group id to 118 - netdial according to the man pages using vipw.

: Now i cannot su to the user... Permission denied
: Worst httpd is not working...
: Cannot BIND to port 80 
: Address in use


what has probably happened was that when an httpd forked to process 
another client request, the parent has died for one reason or another, 
and failed to clean up (which it usually does), leaving a zombie child 
that is still trying to read socket 80.  However, if you have already 
killed all the http daemons + children (you can see them by using
ps -axw | grep http), there is no other way to remove a socket but by 
rebooting.


Yaroslav