On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2001-05-05 20:45:27, mdevin wrote: > > > I get the following in my mail.log file: > > postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and > > /etc/resolv.conf differ > > postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system > > > postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in > > use > > The interesting entry is this last one which says that there is > something else running on port 25. Do you have any other mail server > installed (exim, sendmail, smail, ssmtp)? Is any other mail server > restarts logged (e.g. postfix started in multiple run-levels)? You > could try connecting to port 25 (`telnet 0 25`) to see if the server > advertise itself. My money is on inetd as the culprit ... edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the smtp entry. Then restart inetd with /etc/init.d/inetd reload The default exim configuration runs queue runners from inetd (or at least it used to). I presume you installed Debian (which installed exim as part of the base install) then upgraded to postfix. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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