Date:  Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:13:37 +0100
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08118] Re: apache won't start
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200612070013.37884.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
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Hi Gerald,

> I had the SAME thing happen today! I found mailscanner had bound the
> port. Why? I haven't a clue.

I've seen plenty of that - not only on BlueQuartz. The problem isn't limited 
to MailScanner, but also SpamAssassin, Webmin's "miniserv.pl" and a couple of 
other Perl scripts which are supposed to bind themselves to a certain network 
port.

The problem usually happens with port 443 or port 444, but I've also seen it 
with port 53. No idea why Perl scripts sometimes are so greedy with network 
ports. Must be a general bug somewhere in Perl, or the Perl module 
responsible for sockets and port bindings.

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With best regards,

Michael Stauber