I had similar whoas from time to time with ports. One thing always comes
to mind, "Did you check to see if anything is running in mem that is using
it? I.e. reboot?"
Try looking through your rc files in /etc for anything that has smtp in the
line.
[root@box1] cat /etc/rc* | grep smtp
or
[root@box1] cat /etc/rc* | grep 25
If anything is found, comment them out before booting. After all of what
you described below and the above, there seems to be nothing left.
Firewall? I use a dummy net device that gives this issue from time to time
on my mail server. I just flush/restart it.
Eric Duncan
Robert writes:
> 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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