richardsimnett
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How Do I Unlock Debian / Ubuntu so I can open up port 25 connections (send and receive) and so taht I can bind sockets to local ips?
Hello,
I am an application developer using netbeans on ubuntu 7.10... I am writing an application which requires me to be able to open up and listen on port 80, and on port 25. Whenever I try to listen on these ports I am told they are in use by the operating system and the exception that is thrown in java, however, I dont have apache installed nor do I have sendmail or postfix installed. I have checked thoroughly through the package manager looking for a web service or mail service and there is nothing. So my next th0ought was maybe theres some policy in iptables, so I shut iptables down, and nothing. Then I removed iptables completely and still nothing.
Can someone please tell me how to clear these ports, and limitations so that I can listen on these ports, and bind sockets to local IP addresses?
Worth 500 points.
Thanks,
Rick
I am an application developer using netbeans on ubuntu 7.10... I am writing an application which requires me to be able to open up and listen on port 80, and on port 25. Whenever I try to listen on these ports I am told they are in use by the operating system and the exception that is thrown in java, however, I dont have apache installed nor do I have sendmail or postfix installed. I have checked thoroughly through the package manager looking for a web service or mail service and there is nothing. So my next th0ought was maybe theres some policy in iptables, so I shut iptables down, and nothing. Then I removed iptables completely and still nothing.
Can someone please tell me how to clear these ports, and limitations so that I can listen on these ports, and bind sockets to local IP addresses?
Worth 500 points.
Thanks,
Rick
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alextoft
Are you running the application as root?
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I am not running as root. I am running as my username rick in gnome.. I can sudo in a terminal session.
Thanks,
Rick
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Rick
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omarfarid,
there are no processes listed at all with those commands, except for a few outbound firefox connections.
Thanks,
Rick
there are no processes listed at all with those commands, except for a few outbound firefox connections.
Thanks,
Rick
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