Re: inetd restarting constantly / BIND problem


Subject: Re: inetd restarting constantly / BIND problem
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 21:50:03 MDT


On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Waldo L. Jaquith wrote:
>
> I'm having a couple of problems here that I'm not sure of how to
> resolve. A snippet of my logs:
>
> Oct 27 18:36:22 brodie inetd[4998]: pid 20550: exit status 1
> Oct 27 18:44:38 brodie inetd[4998]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Oct 27 18:51:34 brodie inetd[4998]: pid 20572: exit status 1
> Oct 27 18:54:38 brodie inetd[4998]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Oct 27 19:04:38 brodie inetd[4998]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Oct 27 19:09:09 brodie inetd[4998]: pid 20654: exit status 1
> Oct 27 19:14:38 brodie inetd[4998]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> Oct 27 19:17:05 brodie inetd[4998]: pid 20670: exit status 1
>
> All the services that I have available via inetd.conf are SSH, POP, IMAP
> and auth. Although I've been following the most recent IMAP upgrades,
> I've downgraded a few versions, but that has not repaired anything.

Just a guess, but it sounds like you may already have something listening
on a port that inetd wants to listen on. In particular, I know sshd has a
standalone rc script - any particular reason you added it to inetd.conf?

-Hollis



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