Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:30:52 -0400 From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> To: Perttu Laine <pepe@kahvipannu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: imapd problem. Message-ID: <1096986652.1096.48.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4759.62.183.166.174.1096955953.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi> References: <4759.62.183.166.174.1096955953.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi>
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--=-VBNKdjdh+1UScMrh0j5u Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:59 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: > I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: >=20 > -- > koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use > koaze# I appreciate your choice in IMAP servers. :) > But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a > while, but I removed it and ps aux show nothing that could use imapd port= . > Only other email app running is postfix as smtp. `ps aux' doesn't show which ports are in use. For that, you should use the most wonderful sockstat(1). Running something like this should show you the "Address already in use" culprit: 'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"' > So. What could be wrong here? Exactly what the error message says: the address is already in use. Trust error messages: they're almost never wrong, especially when they're straight from libc. --=-VBNKdjdh+1UScMrh0j5u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBYrAck/lo7zvzJioRAgT4AJwKjKAglz7R5LiwQZFvX5ax50vAcACghvHl qD4yzBj1kkKK6n0uTTkRWtY= =0VDu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VBNKdjdh+1UScMrh0j5u--
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