Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 11.01.2012 18:51, Tony Baldwin:
>
> > when I telnet localhost 25 > ehlo localhost
> > I do not see 250-STARTTL
> > connections to the smtp server are refused (perhaps because of this?).
> >
> > I see the following from tail /var/log/mail.err:
> > Jan 11 02:26:03 vulcan postfix/master[15403]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use
> > Jan 11 11:30:30 vulcan postfix/master[16665]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use
> >
> > but according to lsof and netstat, as far as I can tell, the only thing using port 25 is the smtp server.
>
> "The" smtp server is obviously not "the" stmp server you think it is.
>
> > sudo lsof -i :25
> > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> > sendmail- 10742 root 3u IPv4 14207 0t0 TCP localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN)
>
> Stop and/or uninstall sendmail (or whatever this process might belong to).
I think I just addressed that.
I do not have sendmail installed.
$ sudo aptitude remove sendmail
NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
My understanding is that postfix has something with the same name.
./tony
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