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From: "John Bolster" <j.bol@gte.net>
To: "Viswanathan Prakash" <prakash@ccs.neu.edu>
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Subject: RE: inetd can't bind to service- FIXED
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:03:15 -0500
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Thank you. This stopped it. Both imap and imap4 were trying to run.

Best,
John



>
> Try commenting the line beginning with
>
> imap stream tcp ....
>
> in /etc/inetd.conf
>
> Then restart inetd with
>
> killall -HUP inetd
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, John Bolster wrote:
>
> > I'm hoping some wizard out there can help with this...
> >
> > I am getting error messages from inetd every 10 minutes. The
> messages are:
> >
> > Jan  8 20:39:06 alf inetd[141]: imap/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> > Jan  8 20:45:00 alf inetd[141]: imap/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> >
> > I searched around for what this means and on a HP site I found
> this which
> > seems to describe it:
> >
> > service/ protocol: bind:?Indicates that the service is
> temporarily unusable
> > because inetd cannot bind the service to the socket. After 10
> minutes, inetd
> > tries to bind the socket again. If it is successful, then it
> will listen for
> > a
> > connection request and provide the appropriate service. If it
> fails, it will
> > wait another 10 minutes and try again.
> >
> > However, it does not say how I should make it stop. Does anyone have any
> > ideas? This only started when I installed the imap-uw server.
> (I am running
> > 4.1)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> --
> Prakash
>
>



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