hi (again) -
Well, on closer inspection 'ps aux' reveals one solitary suspicious
process that's being run by 'nobody' which is what our http daemon
runs as:
   PID TTY      S           TIME CMD
 15125 ??         <      0:00.00 <defunct> 
I'm going to guess that this is causing the problem so it'll have to be a
reboot to clear the problem.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
 john
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>-----Original Message-----
>hi again -
>
>OK, the concensus of opinion from too many people to mention 
>individually
>ws to use 'lsof' to see which process was listening on the 
>port. So i've
>grabbed lsof from ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/ and it
>built and runs fine. BUT... it doesn't actually seem to help, 
>or something
>weird is going on:
>
># netstat -a | grep 80
>tcp        0      0  *.80                      *.*             LISTEN
>
># lsof -i TCP:80
>#
>
>lsof doesn't show anything on port 80, but netstat does and httpd won't
>start...
Received on Tue Jun 19 2001 - 14:58:16 NZST