problem with SocketServer -- address already in use

[Constantinos A. Kotsokalis]

On Tue, 13 Jul 99 21:05:28 GMT, Phil Hunt wrote:
>I'm trying to use SocketServer.py to write a TCP server. I ran
>my program with ``python serv.py'', which went into an infinite
>loop (which is what it should do). I exited my program with ^Z,
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>and tried to start it up again. I got an error message:
>
>socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use')

ctrl-Z suspends your server, so the port is still occupied.
Use ctrl-C to interrupt it and wait, or use setsockopt as Gordon
suggests and ctrl-C. In any case, you can't use that port again
with a suspened server.

  --C

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Constantinos A. Kotsokalis || C.Kotsokalis at ece.ntua.gr
National Technical University of Athens - GREECE
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
"Bus error -- driver executed."