From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 02:35:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E2B16A4D0 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9C443D46 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:35:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iA72ZKQa040002; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:35:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:35:20 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jay O'Brien" Message-ID: <20041107023519.GA13223@dan.emsphone.com> References: <418D896E.5020904@att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <418D896E.5020904@att.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD - questions Subject: Re: console error message X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:35:28 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 06), Jay O'Brien said: > This is on a new install of 5.3 RELEASE on a computer that has not > run FreeBSD previously. The computer name is edna. > > I get this message regularly, even when the computer is sitting > idle. The date and time changes, but the text stays the same. > > edna# Nov 6 18:17:29 edna inetd[438]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use > > The only lines in /src/etc/inetd.conf that do not start with a # > are the ftp, ssh, and telnet (tcp, not tcp6) lines. ssh is usually started as a daemon during bootup by /etc/rc.d/sshd, not via inetd. Just comment those inetd.conf lines out again. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com