Cannot bind to http port 8080

Hello,

Until a few days ago I was happily using Popfile, the antispam program.
It connects to http port 8080. One day-- no upgrades, no new kernel, for
no discernable reason, it stopped working, and when I attempted to
restart it, it gave me the following message:

"Couldn't start the html HTTP interface because POPFile could not bind
to the
HTTP port 8080. This could be because there is another service
using that port or because you do not have the right privileges on
your system (On Unix systems this can happen if you are not root
and the port you specified is less than 1024).

Failed to start while starting the html module at ./popfile.pl line 344."

This happens even when I try to run it as superuser. How can I diagnose
this problem? How do I find out if another service is using that port?

Many thanks in advance.

Carter

"Carter Brey" <cbrey@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3fd6a8bb_2@news1.prserv.net

> This happens even when I try to run it as superuser. How can I
> diagnose this problem? How do I find out if another service is using
> that port?

lsof -i :8080

or

netstat -pan | grep :8080


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"Carter Brey" <cbrey@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3fd6a8bb_2@news1.prserv.net...
> Hello,
>
> Until a few days ago I was happily using Popfile, the antispam program.
> It connects to http port 8080. One day-- no upgrades, no new kernel, for
> no discernable reason, it stopped working, and when I attempted to
> restart it, it gave me the following message:
>
> "Couldn't start the html HTTP interface because POPFile could not bind
> to the
> HTTP port 8080. This could be because there is another service
> using that port or because you do not have the right privileges on
> your system (On Unix systems this can happen if you are not root
> and the port you specified is less than 1024).
>
> Failed to start while starting the html module at ./popfile.pl line 344."
>
> This happens even when I try to run it as superuser. How can I diagnose
> this problem? How do I find out if another service is using that port?

netstat can tell you what is listening on that port.

Perhaps it is "squid"

is squid running ? ps auxwwww | grep squid

>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Carter
>