[lug] bind: address already in use.

rm at mamma.varadinet.de rm at mamma.varadinet.de
Fri Feb 9 14:35:49 MST 2001


On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:30:12PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> I don't have any imap processes running. And I do have an entry in
> inetd.conf.
> 
> I just commented out imap (and restarted inetd) and tried to telnet into
> 143 and got the connection closed error. There are no new entries in
> /var/log/messages afterwards.

How's your exact inetd.conf line? Btw, i switched to xined because it
gave me more control over a lot of settings for the individual services.
Any opinions against using xinetd instead of inetd in this list?

> Over the past few days that I've been working on this, I've managed to get
> a command line prompt while starting imapd but haven't been able to telnet
> into it. I can't find an imap config file and washington.edu isn't offering much
> that I can find. Do you know how to start it in standalone mode?

Never touched it myself, my cloworker did the setup :-/

 Ralf



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