That means a service is already running on that port. You don't specify
whether you are trying to start the POP3 or the SMTP when you get that
error, but whichever one you are trying is already running.
-Scott
Voodoo Web network writes:
> I chmodded the files to 755 and it looks like that a few things more are
> working.
> But the following error fill up me screen:
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>
> Is this problem connected with IP adresses?
> I have 5 IPs and like to use every for mail and web.
> Where can I find the binded adresses, in the /etc/tcp.smtp file?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help...
>
> - domi
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Voodoo Web network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: problems with starting qmail/vpopmail
>
>
> > Have you looked at Life With Qmail by Dave Sill
> > (http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html)? It is the best resource for
> > getting qmail up and running. I use vpopmail also. I setup qmail first
> and
> > made sure it worked and then went back and did the vpopmail install and
> made
> > all of my domains virtual.
> > A few things to check. Make sure that the permissions on the run
> files
> > you created in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd and
> > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send (and the log directories in each of
> these).
> > You should have used chmod 755 on all of them. Check to make sure that
> you
> > don't have a mistype in one of the run files. You could have an option
> > wrong or not be pointing it to the correct path of the file you need
> > (tcpserver, etc). Once qmail is running, then try the vpopmail install.
> I
> > did not have any problems with this once I got the kinks out of qmail.
> >
> > Michael French
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Voodoo Web network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:50 PM
> > Subject: problems with starting qmail/vpopmail
> >
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I installed qmail / vpopmail exactly like it is described under
> > > http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/Qmail-FreeBSD.txt .
> > >
> > > But I don't know how I can start all the qmail services, I tried the
> > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail start but this give me following error:
> > > supervise: fatal: unable to start log/run: file does not exist
> > >
> > > What do I have to do, to get my qmail installation working??
> > >
> > > Thanks for your answers.
> > >
> > > dominik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
