From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 9:37:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F5AD37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 64007 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2001 17:35:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitaldaemon.com) (192.168.0.73) by jak.org with SMTP; 10 Jan 2001 17:35:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3A5C9D93.5040103@digitaldaemon.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:36:19 -0500 From: Jan Knepper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bolster Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd can't bind to service References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am just guessing, but it sound like you have something running that listens on the ports for bind. This might be because you have bind (or djbdns) running as a daemon. inetd listerns to all ports for the services defined in /etc/inetd.conf. When it recognizes communication on a specific port it start the associated daemon. So check /etc/inetd.conf to see which services are mainted via inetd. Jan 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message