Re: Sendmail blues

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From: Justin Wills
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00

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Nick Andrew wrote:

> In <3466F13D.5A3B53E@nectar.com.au> Justin Wills <justin@nectar.com.au> writes:
>
> >Quack! wrote:
>
> >> Nov  9 18:25:17 gateway sendmail[6047]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> >> opendaemonsocket:
> >>  cannot bind: Address already in use
> >> Nov  9 18:25:17 gateway sendmail[6047]: problem creating SMTP socket
>
> >reboot
>
> Nope. Major overreaction.
>
> All it means is there's already a process listening on port 25, on that
> IP address (or wildcard address). I.E. sendmail is probably still running.

yeah, or that sendmail has died and not released the port, in which case you'll
need to reboot

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Message-ID: <346935AA.D7F7FA3C@nectar.com.au>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <346565ec.431475071@news.tig.com.au> <3466F13D.5A3B53E@nectar.com.au> <646v0v$kc$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au>

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Date: 1997/11/12
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