[lug] bind: address already in use.

[John Starkey]

Errr uhhh :}

Boy do I feel burnt today. 

I don't know if this is the correct answer but i just tried 

imapd &

And the process is still running but I can't telnet in.

Thanks,

John

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> John
> 
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:07:48PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> > > I'm setting up an imap server and haven't done so in over a year. I keep
> > > getting:
> > > 
> > > inetd[pid] imap/tcp: bind: address already in use
> > > 
> > > Normally the address already in use errors are because there's already a
> > > process running, atleast with some other apps I use. Is this telling me
> > > it's trying to start another bind process? Why would IMAP need do that?
> > > It's happening every ten minutes.
> > 
> > 
> > Nope, not really. 'bind' is the system call that causes the error
> > (first one creates a socket and the the socket get bound to the
> > address:port). This looks to me as if inetd wants open up a 
> > socket on the imap/tcp port and fails. Do you run your imap
> > as a standalone server and have it in /etc/inetd.conf as well?
> > 
> > 
> >  Ralf
> > 
> > 
> > > Anyone know where I can look to figure this one out?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
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