Re: sendmail problem

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

In message <20020101145901.A8014@interoute.net>
	so spake George Rousson (george):

> I've just got the following after rebooting my machine :
> 
> sendmail {8017}: deamon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
> sendmail {8017} : NOQUEUE :SYSERR (root) : opendeamon socket:
> Deamon MTA : cannot bind: Address already in use 

Most likely possibilities:

 1) you have sendmail listed in /etc/inetd.conf and are also trying
    to start it up as a daemon.  In general, trying to run sendmail
    from inetd is a bad idea.

 2) you have a custom sendmail.cf file generated from a .mc file
    that has lines like:

    DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, address=0.0.0.0, Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E')
    DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet6, address=::, Port=587, Name=MSA6, M=O, M=E')

    but lacks the following line:

    FEATURE(`no_default_msa')

Take a look at what processes have ports 25 and 587 open, e.g.

% fstat | egrep 'tcp.*:(25|587)$'

 - todd