On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:42:48AM -0700, gary ng wrote: > But the problem is not when I am connecting to it, it > cannot even start up, just the following error and it > aborts. May be exim4 may be something that falls into > the category of "what doesn't work under vserver". > > ===================================================== > 2005-05-31 01:35:31 socket bind() to port 25 for > address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: > waiting before trying again [duplicates zapped]
well, did you check that port 25 isn't already in use on the host? could be that a mail server is running on the host too? (if so, restricting that one to an IP which is not assigned to the guest would help a lot ;) HTH, Herbert > ==================================================== > > --- Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:06:49AM -0700, gary ng > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am having some strange problem with exim4 in > > 1.2.10. > > > If I don't specify address/interface for it to > > bind, > > > it would try all address and stalled at 127.0.0.1. > > I > > > can only tell it to bind the assigned ip. > > > > > > But for other service like sshd/slapd, it seems > > that > > > it works as expected, i.e. I can access both the > > > assigned ip as well as 127.0.0.1. > > > > probably _all_ ips work, just exim might be > > 'confused' > > by local connections comming from <guest ip> instead > > of 127.0.0.1 (which is absolutely fine regarding > > linux > > networking, but a little unusual for apps doing > > dubious > > security checks) > > > > > What would be the possible cause for this ? > > > > linux-vserver with the legacy networking does a > > remapping > > of 127.0.0.1 to the first IP assigned to a guest ... > > > > best, > > Herbert > > > > > regards, > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site > > > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Vserver mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
