Proper way to start Bird

[Alexander Zubkov]

Yes, you get connection refused. That generally means that bird daemon
is not listening to the socket. May be something strange has happened.
Check who may be listening to the socket:
netstat -nap | grep bird.ctl
You'll see the process if any. If nothing is there, then try to run
bird daemon again - it should not give an error, you can also try to
delete the socket file. If you would still receive an error during
daemon startup and you see no obvious problems like permissions, etc,
than you can try to run bird daemon under strace to see where it
fails.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:27 AM Fabiano D'Agostino
<fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, but how can I do that command if when I try to connect to birdc I get the error above?
>
> Il Dom 22 Mar 2020, 09:18 Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> ha scritto:
>>
>> It is right there in the documentation:
>> https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-4.html#cli-down
>>
>> down
>> Shut BIRD down.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:49 PM Fabiano D'Agostino
>> <fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am using Bird 2.0.7 and I didn't find any way to stop the process, I mean I didn't find any command
>> >
>> > Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 22:28 Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> ha scritto:
>> >>
>> >> 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
>> >> >> >>>