Proper way to start Bird

[Fabiano D'Agostino]

According to the documentation the socket is in  *prefix*/var/run/bird.ctl
Anyway if I run bird I get this error:Cannot create control socket Address
already in use

Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 15:35 Fabiano D'Agostino <
fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hi Martin,
> my socket is at /usr/local/var/run/. I am running bird on a VM, the first
> time I run Bird it worked, but then I reboot my VM and now I get this
> error..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 15:28 Martin Weinelt <
> martin at darmstadt.freifunk.net> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Fabiano,
>>
>> you need to specify the correct path your the control socket via `birdc
>> -s <path>`. You apparently built your bird with PREFIX=/usr/local but
>> the control socket is not there. Have you checked whether it is at
>> `/run/bird.ctl` instead?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 3/21/20 2:59 PM, Fabiano D'Agostino wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > which is the proper way to start Bird?
>> > I edited the bird.conf and now I am getting this error when I lunch
>> birdc:
>> > Unable to connect to server control socket
>> > (/usr/local/var/run/bird.ctl): Connection refused
>> > I also did bird -p
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Fabiano
>>
>>
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