On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:59 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: > I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: > > -- > koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use > koaze#
I appreciate your choice in IMAP servers. :) > But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a > while, but I removed it and ps aux show nothing that could use imapd port. > Only other email app running is postfix as smtp. `ps aux' doesn't show which ports are in use. For that, you should use the most wonderful sockstat(1). Running something like this should show you the "Address already in use" culprit: 'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"' > So. What could be wrong here? Exactly what the error message says: the address is already in use. Trust error messages: they're almost never wrong, especially when they're straight from libc.
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