python socket.error operation not permitted
linux, python
Solution
There are several possibilities.
- You are not root.
- A previously run version of your application is still holding the port in the background. Kill it by name.
- A system daemon is still holding the port, for example Apache.
Note that the port is not immediately available after the socket is closed (server having been killed). If you want to be sure that processes that don't exist anymore cannot be blocking the port from reuse, issue:
serversocket.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
before binding it.
Problem
I am running below code as root and using python2.6.1, platform is linux ``` >>> import socket >>> serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> serversocket.bind((socket.gethostname(), 80)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 1, in bind socket.error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted ``` How to solve this problem