SABnzbd Forums

Hi guys.

I restarted my computer just a few hours ago. When it came back up, sabnzbd had changed its listnening port from 8081 to 8086. I can NOT figure out how to get it to go back. I can set it to listen on 8081 in the settings and restart it, but it always comes back up on 8086. I looked through the logs to see if I could find an error somewhere that would cause it to pick a different port but was unable to find anything. I even did a reinstall with the same results.

I have so many port forwarding rules and applications set up to connect to sab that changing them all to 8086 would be a serious pain. Any help you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you!!!

-Ryan

Stop SABnzbd and edit the sabnzbd.ini file directly.
Location: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-0-7

I did that. I even made it read only! Booted up sab and it was still on 8086 (even though the ini still said 8081). It's really really odd.

That should only happen when some other program is using that port.
Does the same happen after reboot?
Are using a program like SickBeard or CouchPotato?