Re: scheduler problems with linux 2.0.11/redhat 3.0.3

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 03:07:07 +0200, Andi Kleen
<andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de> said:

> Hi
> I installed zmailer-2.99.36 on my home machine but the scheduler seems
> to be broken:

> fred:/var/log/mail# ls -l /var/log/mail/scheduler
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root     165788672 Aug 12 03:00 /var/log/mail/scheduler

> scheduler log contains this:

> bind:mailq socket: Address already in use
> Synchronous startup completed, messages: 0 (0 skipped) recipients: 0
> ***********************************************************************
> bind:mailq socket: Address already in use
> **** recursed into mux()! ***
> **** recursed into mux()! ***

I've seen similar behaviour.  It occurs when the smtp port is already
bound.  You probably still have the smtp line enabled in
/etc/inetd.conf, or you haven't killed the existing sendmail daemon
properly.

Cheers,
 Stephen.
--
Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.