On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:31:36 EDT, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=78). The server is probably not started.
>
> I stopped and restarted listserv, but that didn't help.  I can get to many of the web pages through WA, but none that require authentication.

Hmm.. there's a known issue with the 'lsv' process not opening port 2306 on the way
up after a crash or a kill -9, because the old process didn't close() the socket
and it doesn't use SO_REUSEADDR, but restarting the lsv process again should fix
that (because the second restart will almost certainly be more than SO_LINGER time
after, so the port will be available).

You probably want to use 'netstat -a -n' and/or 'lsof' to see who, if anybody, has
port 2306 open, and double-check that any firewalling in effect has a punch-out
for that port.

I find the 'lcmdx.c' program very useful for diagnosing this stuff - using it
to submit a 'release' command directly to the 'lsv' process bypasses all of the
webserver issues - if 'lcmdx release' doesnt return a proper output for 'release',
it's either a networking issue or an 'lsv' issue.

/Valdis