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Mark Volkmann

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Jan 20, 2006, 10:59:35 AM1/20/06
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I have the following basic code. When I run this it says "TCPServer
Error: Address already in use - bind(2)". I can hit Ctrl-C to kill it,
change the port to anything and rerun it and I still get that error
message. I must be missing something really basic.

require 'webrick'
include WEBrick

class AddServlet < HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
def do_GET(req, res)
n1 = req.query['n1'].to_i
n2 = req.query['n2'].to_i

res['Content-Type'] = 'text/html'
res.body = "The sum of #{n1} and #{n2} is #{n1 + n2}."
end
end

server = HTTPServer.new(:Port=>2000)
trap('INT') { server.shutdown }
trap('TERM') { server.shutdown }
server.mount("/add", AddServlet)
server.start

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.


Caleb Tennis

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Jan 20, 2006, 12:12:00 PM1/20/06
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On Friday 20 January 2006 10:59, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> I have the following basic code. When I run this it says "TCPServer
> Error: Address already in use - bind(2)". I can hit Ctrl-C to kill it,
> change the port to anything and rerun it and I still get that error
> message. I must be missing something really basic.

It works here on Linux. What's your platform, and are you sure you don't have
something else already running on port 2000 ?


Mark Volkmann

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Jan 20, 2006, 1:09:07 PM1/20/06
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On 1/20/06, Caleb Tennis <ca...@aei-tech.com> wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 10:59, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > I have the following basic code. When I run this it says "TCPServer
> > Error: Address already in use - bind(2)". I can hit Ctrl-C to kill it,
> > change the port to anything and rerun it and I still get that error
> > message. I must be missing something really basic.
>
> It works here on Linux.

Thanks for checking it!

> What's your platform

I've been able to duplicate this under both Windows XP and Fedora Core 4 Linux.

> and are you sure you don't have
> something else already running on port 2000 ?

I tried again a while ago and it's now working under Windows. Makes me
think that for some reasons when I killed the server it didn't
immediately free up the port. However, under Linux it's still saying
the port is in use.

Is there an easy way I can ask Linux for a list of all the ports in use?

Caleb Tennis

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Jan 20, 2006, 1:19:25 PM1/20/06
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> I tried again a while ago and it's now working under Windows. Makes me
> think that for some reasons when I killed the server it didn't
> immediately free up the port. However, under Linux it's still saying
> the port is in use.

There's usually a setting you can use to tell the OS to allow you to reuse the
port once it's closed. I don't have my Pickaxe in front of me, but I do have
my camel book and in Perl there's a "Reuse" parameter that gets passed to new
TCP Sockets to be able to reuse the port. I'm guessing Webrick has something
similiar.

> Is there an easy way I can ask Linux for a list of all the ports in use?

"netstat -at" for TCP ports.

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