ApacheJServ/1.1: Failed to bind to port(s)

Question

Hi,
I'm running Oracle-HTTP-Server/1.3.28 on Red Hat Linux and JDK 1.4.2
For many months, everything was running fine.
Now I get the following error message (many times) in file "jserv.log":
[Note: reformatted for easier reading.]
[02/08/2007 18:23:32] ApacheJServ/1.1:
Failed to bind to port(s) specified in jserv.properties.
Please check jserv.properties and jserv.conf file, and make sure number of JServ
process specified in jserv.conf is less than number of ports specified
in jserv.properties and the ports are not used by other processes.I'm hoping someone will be able to help me resolve this problem.
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August 3, 2007 - More information:
JServ is configured to listen to port 8007 only.
When iAS is started up, the first time a servlet request is sent, the process becomes defunct and is unable to release the 8007 port.
All subsequent attempts to access that port fail, as the port is still bound to a defunct process.
If you kill the defunct process, the port is then in a CLOSE state, as seen by using "netstat".
Thanks,
Avi.
Message was edited by:
Avi Abrami

Answer 1

Hi,
Turned out to be a file permissions problem.
The owner of another process -- not Oracle HTTP Server -- was trying to write log messages to a file it didn't have permission to write to.
Once the owner was granted write permission to the log file, the problem disappeared.
Thanks for all the help ;-)
Good Luck,
Avi.