<div dir="ltr">According to the documentation the socket is in
<em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(242,252,254)">prefix</em><code style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(242,252,254)">/var/run/bird.ctl </code><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><span style="background-color:rgb(242,252,254)">Anyway if I run bird I get this error:Cannot create control socket Address already in use</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 15:35 Fabiano D'Agostino <<a href="mailto:fabiano.dagostino96@gmail.com">fabiano.dagostino96@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div>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..</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 15:28 Martin Weinelt <<a href="mailto:martin@darmstadt.freifunk.net" target="_blank">martin@darmstadt.freifunk.net</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Fabiano,<br>
<br>
you need to specify the correct path your the control socket via `birdc<br>
-s <path>`. You apparently built your bird with PREFIX=/usr/local but<br>
the control socket is not there. Have you checked whether it is at<br>
`/run/bird.ctl` instead?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
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On 3/21/20 2:59 PM, Fabiano D'Agostino wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> which is the proper way to start Bird?<br>
> I edited the bird.conf and now I am getting this error when I lunch birdc: <br>
> Unable to connect to server control socket<br>
> (/usr/local/var/run/bird.ctl): Connection refused <br>
> I also did bird -p<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Fabiano<br>
<br>
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