SUMMARY: socket bind() to port 25 ... failed

Original query:

> 2003-07-30 11:32:17 socket bind() to port 25 for address
> 146.232.128.43 failed:
> Cannot assign requested address: waiting before trying again
> 2003-07-30 11:32:47 socket bind() to port 25 for address
> 146.232.128.43 failed:
> Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned

Thanks to Bertrand_Hutin,Jeff Woods, Ayhan Kanmaz, Mike Kercher, Jim
Carroll, paulv and  Kevin Enslow for replying.  The consensus wat that
some process was keeping port 25 busy.  

However nmap, lsof -i [email protected]:25 and netstat -ap (I did not
use netstat -plant before I the problem was solved) did not reveal
which process it was.  In the end I removed the mta from the system
and re-installed and reconfigured it.  I did not have the same problem
since.

Anyhow now I know that that error message means and I have learnt
about the -l option of netstat.  Thanks again.

Regards.
Johann
-- 
Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

     "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; 
      knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And  
      patience, experience; and experience, hope."          
                                        Romans 5:3,4 
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