[plug] Inetd complaining for no good reason

[Denis Brown]

Hello, Cameron.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Evenin' Plug,
> 
> I'm seeing some odd messages in the syslog on my gateway at home from
> inetd, complaining about not being able to bind to the telnet or smtp
> ports.  Despite this telnet and smtp are working fine, and netstat shows
> that inetd is in fact bound to them anyway.
> 
> # tail /var/log/daemon.log
> <snip>
> Jul 22 22:24:17 euclid inetd[7350]: smtp/tcp4: bind: Address already in use
> Jul 22 22:24:17 euclid inetd[7350]: telnet/tcp4: bind: Address already in use
> <snip>

This is the sort of thing that happens when a connection is not taken down
gracefully.   Is this url of any use?
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/addrinuse.html

Could it be that you have bind running as both a daemon and
called via inetd?

HTH,
Denis