Re: bind: Address already in use

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
> I've been connecting to the workstations by running:
>   ssh -L 5900:<workstation internal IP address>:5900 <external office 
> IP address>

> Today I'm getting the error:
>    bind: Address already in use

> Any ideas?

The address is already in use, probably from another ssh session using
the same local and/or remote port.

On each end you can try this to identify the other ssh session:
    sudo netstat -nap | grep :5900

The last field contains the process name and number.
Chris