From 6b4800d2d689a8274a826b84897d0e2ec919d2ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zadam <zadam.apps@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 07:31:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] port error clarifications

---
 src/www | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/www b/src/www
index bc41ca063..778197e37 100644
--- a/src/www
+++ b/src/www
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ async function startTrilium() {
             // handle specific listen errors with friendly messages
             switch (error.code) {
                 case 'EACCES':
-                    console.error(`Port ${port} requires elevated privileges`);
+                    console.error(`Port ${port} requires elevated privileges. It's recommended to use port above 1024.`);
                     process.exit(1);
                     break;
 
                 case 'EADDRINUSE':
-                    console.error(`Port ${port} is already in use`);
+                    console.error(`Port ${port} is already in use. Most likely, another Trilium process is already running. You might try to find it, kill it, and try again.`);
                     process.exit(1);
                     break;