code-server stopped working, tried to restart, but does not work.

[miketaochina]

Hi, I use a Mac, OSX 10.14.6 (18G87)

I installed code-server and it was work well, but suddenly it stopped working, so I entered code-server in terminal and it showed me this:

(base) MBP:~ me$ code-server
[2020-12-12T18:37:43.244Z] info  code-server 3.7.4 11f53784c58f68e7f4c5b3b8dae9407caa41725b
[2020-12-12T18:37:43.244Z] info  Using user-data-dir ~/.local/share/code-server
[2020-12-12T18:37:43.251Z] error listen EADDRNOTAVAIL: address not available `my public IP address here`:8080

it supposed to show me something end with .yaml which is ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml but not any more, which I could not find my password file. But I searched Q&A and I found this command: cat ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml and I found it, which means this file is still there.
and then I tried to restart code-server, so I entered sudo systemctl restart code-server, and it showed me this:

(base) MBP:~ me$ sudo systemctl restart code-server
Password:
sudo: systemctl: command not found

Why this command not found..?
and I tried to scanned the ports which are open by Nmap, I could not find port8080 in the list, which means it is not open.
so how i can make it work again?
Thanks a lot!

[kphanipavan]

systemctl is only available on Linux OSs. Equivalent command for MacOS is launchctl

Try

sudo launchctl stop code-server
sudo launchctl start code-server

[kphanipavan]

Try

to find ports which are being used...