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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:32:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Viswanathan Prakash <prakash@ccs.neu.edu>
To:        John Bolster <j.bol@gte.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd can't bind to service
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101092329520.25208-100000@bellatrix.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBKLANMLAKACFKNODOKEJACLAA.j.bol@gte.net>

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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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