Socket Error: Address already in use

Hello all,

I'm trying to get the Trac bug tracking system installed on my system(running snow leopard). After quite a bit of tinkering I've managed to install Trac, but as of now, its a standalone entity. I am trying to get this linked to the apache webserver, but having no success. Has anybody done this before? I haven't used unix to this level before and so am struggling with that as well... any info on this is much appreciated.

One of the instructions to test run Trac as a standalone component was using this command tracd --port 8000 /path/to/myfolder (according to installation instructions at http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall). I stopped it using Ctrl-Z and now when I try to run it again, get the following message and error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/tracd", line 8, in <module>
load entrypoint('Trac==0.12', 'console_scripts', 'tracd')()
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/trac/web/standalone.py", line 290, in main
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/trac/web/standalone.py", line 257, in serve
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/trac/web/standalone.py", line 109, in _init_
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/trac/web/wsgi.py", line 231, in _init_
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketS erver.py", line 400, in _init_
self.server_bind()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/BaseHTT PServer.py", line 108, in server_bind
SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketS erver.py", line 411, in server_bind
self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
File "<string>", line 1, in bind
socket.error: [Errno 48] Address already in use

Can somebody please guide me to fix this?

Message was edited by: capemacuser

I realize that closing the terminal window "frees" the socket. But, is there something else that I can do while stopping the running application to ensure that the socket also gets "freed"?