May be you are running SMTP daemon through through inetd(internet super
server).
See entry in /etc/inetd.conf. The error message indicates the port 25
(standard
port for SMTP) is already bound to some other process.
Cheers
-Shashidhar
siva shanmugam wrote:
>
> hi,
> I had installed ucspi-tcp-0.84 where qmail is running
> already.i am getting the following error when i give
> this in command line.
>
> tcpserver -x/usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1001 -g1000
> 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
>
> error:
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>
> there is no smtp or qmail-snmtpd runnig.But all other
> deamon like qmail-send is running.
>
> when i gave killall smtp i am getting a msg /proc is
> not mounted
>
> later i gave kill pid(pid of qmail-send).it killed all
> the existing qmail processes.i tried giving
>
> tcpserver -x/usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1001 -g1000
> 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
>
> but still i am getting the same error
>
> I restarted the qmail by giving /var/qmail/rc &
>
> please help
> siva.
>
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