Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:58:37 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <200204102351.54649@.perimeter.co.za> In-Reply-To: <00a601c1ddbe$b136ae00$0301a8c0@fritz> References: <00a601c1ddbe$b136ae00$0301a8c0@fritz>
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On Sun 07 Apr 02 00:59, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > I got a server running 4.5. The problem is that when I try to start > smtp in inetd.conf it tells me all this stuff about it not being able > to create the smtp socket because it's in use or something.. But it > starts the server in some form, when I telnet to the server through > the smtp port it tells me the servername and everything, but when I > type anything and send it a command it replies with a: > > 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) > > Has anybody ever had this problem? I would appreciate any help at > all about this. Christopher, It is quite likely that the SMTP service has been started automatically by the rc (run command) scripts. This is done automatically when BSD is installed. If the service is running, then there is no need to use inetd, as this "super-server" is designed to start other services on demand if they are NOT running. Hence the conflict you are seeing - you are trying to start a second service to listen to the same socket, but it is in use by the daemon which is already running... Try this: # ps -ax | grep mail If you see a line which reads, in part, something like "sendmail accepting connections", then the sendmail daemon is already running. Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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