Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-29 03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to connect via ssh to a remote server, with
>  ssh -f  -L 6000:localhost:4499 campbell@91.204.208.39 -N
> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000
>
> When I enter the password I get:
>
> bind: Address already in use
> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6000
> Could not request local forwarding
>
>
> I can't find port 6000 with netstat -a.

Is that 6000 or 60000?

> There has to something wrongly configured on this machine because on a
> different one it does work. Any suggestions what to try next?

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