ken@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Hall) (02/28/90)
Anyone seen the following error and know how to fix it: sendmail demon getrequests cannot bind socket to port 6400 in use -- Ken Hall - Department Manager | Bellnet: (404) 894-5559 Office of the Assoc. VP for Bus & Fin | Bitnet: khall@gtri01.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology | Internet: ken@pyr.gatech.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) (03/01/90)
In article <9908@pyr.gatech.EDU> ken@pyr.gatech.edu.gatech.edu (Ken Hall) writes: >Anyone seen the following error and know how to fix it: > >sendmail demon getrequests cannot bind socket to port 6400 in use Yes Ken, this is a simple one. What is happening is that your inetd is configured to listen for smtp requests. It is started up first and so has this port open. Next your sendmail is started up with a -bd flag which means it too tries to run as a demon and thus bind to the same port, hence the error message. To resolve the problem you have two choices, you can change the /etc/inetd.conf file so that inetd doesn't listen for smtp and then sendmail will be an independent demon. Or you can simply remove the -bd flag from the startup script (I've forgotten if its /etc/rc.tcpip or /etc/rc.sendmail). Don't know any overriding reasons for prefering one way as opposed to the other, but you should alter things one way or the other. Disclaimer: IMHO only, even if I'm right :-} -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@seas.ucla.edu AIX Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@ifs.umich.edu