This may not be much help, but I can confirm that AOLServer installs fine on
Mandrake 8.
Apologies if this is glaringly obvious, but you are sure that
63.12.31.202:8000
Is not already assigned or already has something listening on it, i.e.
another AOLServer?
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 13:47, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the very first time I'm attempting to get AOLServer compiled and
> going on Linux, after failing miserably using Solaris 8.
>
> Have just installed a Linux Mandrake 8.0 system, and am attempting to
> get AOLServer running on it. Are there any known issues with AOLServer
> and Mandrake Linux 8.0? This is a Linux Kernel 2.4.3 SMP machine if
> that has any bearing on the situation.
>
> Have followed this set of instructions :
>
> a) Uncompressed the AOLServer 3.3.1 tar.gz archive to a temporary
> location
> b) Using an everyday, normal user, entered this directory and did
> "gmake" (no problems there), then "gmake install", then "gmake
> install-tests"
> c) Created the nsadmin group, created the nsadmin user, having it's
> default group also be nsadmin
> d) Did chown -Rh nsadmin.nsadmin /usr/local/aolserver
> e) su - nsadmin
> f) Entered /usr/local/aolserver and copied sample-config.tcl to
> config.tcl
>
> g) (Here's the problem) Attempted to start AOLServer using :
>
> ../bin/nsd -ft ./config.tcl
>
> A bunch of foreground startup messages, including these 4 lines :
>
> [15/May/2001:23:42:24][23259.1024][-main-] Error: nssock: failed to
> listen on 63.12.31.202:8000: Cannot assign requested address
> [15/May/2001:23:42:24][23259.3076][-nssock-] Notice: nssock: starting
> [15/May/2001:23:42:24][23259.3076][-nssock-] Notice: nssock: accepting
> connections
> [15/May/2001:23:42:24][23259.3076][-nssock-] Notice: exiting
>
> Anyone have any ideas to solve this and get AOLServer working properly?
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> --
> "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
> who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
> first group; there was less competition there."
> - Indira Gandhi
