Re: [cobalt-users] Portsentry unable to listen to UDP ports

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Zarrir Junior wrote:

>      Hi,
> 
>      I´ve installed Portsentry three days ago. I found it strange not to
> receive any Logcheck messages about UDP ports and, scanning through the
> logs, i found this, right after Portsentry install:
> May  4 23:42:59 ns portsentry[14642]: adminalert: ERROR: could not bind ANY
> UDP sockets. Shutting down.
> 
>         Could this be a configuration error? Could this be that all these
> UDP ports are closed/unavailable? How do i check this?

There are only 3 reasons that come to mind, 
1)you aren't starting it as root
(unlikely, since it managed to write syslog)
2) You already started it before (check for duplicate instances )
3) Some nasty trojan thinggy grabbed all the ports, you have a worm or got
  rooted... chkrootkit.org comes to mind here...

gsh