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Subject: Re: console error message
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Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thank you! That fixed it and ssh still works, incoming and outgoing. 
What was the error message telling me, and why was it repeating? And 
why was I prompted to "uncomment" services by the install program?