Re: !ERROR 98 binding SSH Server socket
  By: Paulie420 to All on Fri May 01 2020 03:14 pm

 > Ok, I'll tell you what I did do. I read the wiki, and have not change the
 > BindRetryCount/BindRetryDelay in sbbs.ini... nor add REUSEADDR=1 to
 > strl/sockopts.ini....

Error 98 is "Address already in use"
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h

 > I did scan the network with netstat, and altho I don't know how to read that
 > output perfectly, I don't see anything on socket 22...

Is this an error on initial bind or on re-bind (e.g. after a recycle of sbbs)?
If it's an error on re-bind, maybe by the time you ran the netstat command, the
TCP connection was already closed. Did you try again?

If it's an initial bind issue, then you have something running/listening on
port 22 already (e.g. sshd). Maybe you need to run "sudo netstat -l" to see it.
You're going to "ssh" instead of "22" unless include the '-n' option to
netstat. "man netstat" for help on how to use it.

 > So, jesus paul I hope you're not ONLY wasting folks time... but.. do I need
 > to change sbbs.ini or sockopts.ini as described above? Or am I missing
 > something prior to that??

No, either of the .ini file work-arounds should work.


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