[NTLUG:Discuss] message in /var/log

[Matt Midboe]

Dart West wrote:
> 
> This message started showing up in /var/log. Everything seems to be
> working ok . Anyone know what it is ?
> 
> Dart
> 
> Dec  2 04:06:28 mail inetd[11086]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in
> use

You have two network servers that are trying to run on the same network port.
This could be a few things. You might have sendmail running in daemon mode and
you are later launching it from inetd, or maybe you have httpd in standalone
mode and you are later trying to launch it from inetd. Check your inetd.conf and
make sure you aren't trying to spawn something out of it that is already
running. It could also be that you are trying to use hardware based virtual
servers in a web server like Apache and the addresses for two of the virtual
servers are conflicting. Can you capture a process list?

Matt
matt at snsnet.net