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Long story short, my psybnc process will not stay up for more than an hour or two. After that I can see my psybnc getting dropped from IRC and when i try to run psybnc with ./psybnc, it tells me "Cannot create listening port .. aborting". I fix this by editing psybnc.conf in vi and changing the port #, and then I connect to a different port through IRC onto my bnc. Is the problem maybe that my psybnc is generating too much traffic? I'm in 7-8 channels with 40-50+ people in them, so I dont think that should be a problem... by all means I'm a newbie so I really have no idea whats going on. If its something on my end I'd be glad to fix it.

I'm in 7-8 channels with 40-50+ people in them, so I dont think that should be a problem...

Depends on how much text is going through your bnc.

I fix this by editing psybnc.conf in vi and changing the port #, and then I connect to a different port through IRC onto my bnc.

Good start, but you should also check the IRC server you're connected to.

If this keeps happening, I suggest you try ShroudBNC(sBNC). I recommended it to some people on Phoenix and so far I got no negative comments about it.

I just left like 3 or 4 channels that were causing the most traffic and my bnc has been up for almost 30 hrs, so that we probably the cause.

g0to wrote:... i try to run psybnc with ./psybnc, it tells me "Cannot create listening port .. aborting".

What port to write? I trying 31337 / 66690 / 11007 / 11100 But nothing... Always tell:

Cannot create listening port .. aborting

had same problem(BNC drops from irc server due ping timeout) , so i deleted my friend from BNC, now only 1 user is connected(me) and it works fine.

min2liz wrote:

g0to wrote:... i try to run psybnc with ./psybnc, it tells me "Cannot create listening port .. aborting".

What port to write? I trying 31337 / 66690 / 11007 / 11100 But nothing... Always tell:

Cannot create listening port .. aborting

Try using another ip address. And also use non-standard ports.

I successfully solved this issue by doing the following commands (after a ton of trial and error)...

ps -U [username] (this lists all of the processes that you have running both active and in BG)
kill -9 [id] (use this command to kill all of your psybnc's that arent working properly, i had like 10 of them because each time it crashed i would just run another one on a different port)
./psybnc (just run ur psybnc on w/e port you want from your psybnc dir)

hope this helps for anyone with this problem!