After you commented out the sendmail line in your inetd.conf file, you
made sure that you also killed the sendwhale process as well, didnt you?
ps auxw | grep sendmail
should show you whats running. Also there is a utility that can tell you
what program is using what port, but i cant think of the name right now.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Robert wrote:
>Hello,
> I recently install qmail on a BSDI 4.01 server, and I'm having a really
>bad time trying to get it running. I read the HOWTO located here
>http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10 I did everything as
>explained, but I'm getting this error in /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd:
>
>xxxxxx.xxxxxxx tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>
>I dug through the archives and found someone having the same problem,
>but there were no real answers as to why it was happening. I commented
>out anything referring to SMTP,POP,POP3,port 25 or 110 in inetd.conf. I
>also ran netstat to see if there was anything using the ports, and there
>doesn't appear to be. I even went as far as to comment out the
>reference to SMTP in /etc/services thinking it may somehow reserve that
>port for sendmail. I knew this couldn't be the case, but I'm getting
>desperate at this point. Has anyone ever had this problem and actually
>corrected it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Please let me
>know if I'm missing something.
>
>Thank you,
>Robert
>
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