Proper way to start Bird

[Alexander Zubkov]

You can send it a command to shut down itself, or you can send some
signals to the process kill TERM or even KILL.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 8:43 PM Fabiano D'Agostino
<fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good evening Alexander,
> the directory exists, how can I stop the other bird process?
>
> Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 20:00 Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> You probably have another bird process running already. Also ensure
>> that /usr/local/var/run/ exists with proper permissions.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 7:31 PM Fabiano D'Agostino
>> <fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>>