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