Something is already bound to port 25. Have you turned off sendmail? Have
you checked to see that there are no errant qmail-smtpd processes already
running?
(Plus, you'll still need to correct the ownership or permissions on
/var/log/qmail)
-D
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Campisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:32 AM
>To: Dave Kelly; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Trouble Starting qmail
>
>
>: What's in your qmail-smtpd/run file? There's an error with the
>call to exec
>: in there, it appears.
>
>Actually there's an error I missed upon startup.
>/usr/local/sbin/qmail start
>
>Starting qmail: svscan.
>tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: access denied
>multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: access deni
>ed
>supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: exec format error
>
>My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file contains:
>#!/bin/sh
>QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
>NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
>exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
> -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
>
>I took this directly from LWQ. Is the problem with tcpserver? I
>don't know what "address already used" means. Any ideas?
>
>tony.campisi
>
>
>
