Hi Johannes and others, Your analysis made a lot of sense to me and I have been trying to see where port 631 has been used: I found that I had added port 631 to the firewall and the /etc/samba/smb.conf I eliminated both and tried to start cupsd ... the result is not clear: http://localhost:631/ goes howhere
west:/home/scn # cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
I am not sure what status 98 and child mean? I also tried to get the yast printer configuation tool to complete but it is still stalling in the `load current settings´ phase of the printer definition. Is there a command/function which will let me find out where/how port 631 is being used? I also feel, no proof, that the problem has to do with the interaction of samba3.0.9-2.6-suse and susepro9.1 because the printer-loss and yast-printer-definition stall occurred with both machines - each has a different printer. Both were in samba. Any thoughts? I look forward to resolving this problem. On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 08:22, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Monday 01 August 2005 03:25, Serge Naggar wrote:
E [31/Jul/2005:18:40:04 -0400] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address already in use.
Some other program or service has posr 631 already in use.
It may happen that the other program has finished so that cupsd would start fine later.
It may happen that the other sevice still has the port 631 in use so that you must stop the other sevice, start cups and then start the other sevice.
The reason is that the other program or service simply uses any free port and by accident it may use the IPP port.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -- Cheers, Serge [Naggar Consulting]