[rsyslog] what does error -2077 trying to add listener mean

[Rainer Gerhards]

This sounds like some quirk with IPv6...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Mieslinger
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:57 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] what does error -2077 trying to add listener
> mean
> 
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> there is only one place where RS_RET_COULD_NOT_BIND is returned:
> 
> runtime/nsd_ptcp.c
> 
> 	numSocks = 0;   /* num of sockets counter at start of array */
>          for(r = res; r != NULL ; r = r->ai_next) {
>                 sock = socket(r->ai_family, r->ai_socktype, r-
> >ai_protocol);
> 
> [ lots of magic ]
> 
> 	}
> 
>          if(numSocks == 0) {
>                  dbgprintf("No TCP listen sockets could successfully be
> initialized");
>                  ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_COULD_NOT_BIND);
>          }
> 
> I have no idea why the OS reports the Sockets open and messages get
> received, maybe there is a minor problem in the code, but somehow it
> works...
> 
> Thomas
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