I also tried:
cat /etc/* | grep smtp
All references were commented out or were those that I made in /etc/rc
for starting the service except a couple. There were 8 lines in the
sendmail.cf file. I shouldn't need to comment those out should I? I
have disabled the daemon, and it isn't running so it wouldn't use that
would it??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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
>
> President.and.CEO
> The.Public.Network
> http://www.thepublic.net
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