Date:  Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:40:41 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:08426] Re: Problem with mail & iptables- cannot bind: Address already in use & Unloading iptables modules [FAILED]
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <018d01c72c31$3ea77510$3701a8c0@lapxp>
In-Reply-To:  <10cd01c72be5$c90a5070$0100a8c0@immjrdesktop>
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>  Hello,
> 
> I apologize about the html email... 
> After a 2nd reboot all is fine.
> Happy Holidays.
> 
> Regards,
> Mitch
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> 
> First$B))(BAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL…
> 
> I am having errors today with mail$B)O(Bobody on the server can receive
> email..they keep getting asked for the password in outlook…
> I tried restarted sendmail  and get this: - NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> 
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8855]: starting daemon (8.13.1): SMTP
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sm-msp-queue[8861]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> queueing@00:15:00
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8868]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> queueing@00:15:00
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8847]: alias database 
> /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt
> by root
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8847]: /etc/mail/aliases: 65 
> aliases, longest
> 10 bytes, 654 bytes total
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8847]: alias database
> /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo rebuilt by root
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8847]: 
> /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo: 39 aliases,
> longest 91 bytes, 1996 bytes total
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8855]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> opendaemonsocket:
> daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> Dec 29 15:20:18 ns8 sendmail[8855]: daemon MTA: problem 
> creating SMTP socket
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sendmail[8883]: starting daemon (8.13.1): SMTP
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sendmail[8883]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> opendaemonsocket:
> daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sm-msp-queue[8889]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> queueing@00:15:00
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sm-msp-queue[8889]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sm-client.pid: file in use by another process
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sendmail[8883]: daemon MTA: problem 
> creating SMTP socket
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sendmail[8896]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> queueing@00:15:00
> Dec 29 15:20:19 ns8 sendmail[8896]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.out.pid: file in use by another process
> Dec 29 15:20:23 ns8 sendmail[8855]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> opendaemonsocket:
> daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> Dec 29 15:20:23 ns8 sendmail[8855]: daemon MTA: problem 
> creating SMTP socket
> Dec 29 15:20:24 ns8 sendmail[8883]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> opendaemonsocket:
> daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> 
> 
> Thought it might be iptables so I did
> iptables $BKG(Blush
> not sure that was smart$B)B(Bll my rules are gone…
> Also with iptables when I restart I get this..
> 
> [root (at mark) ns8 mqueue]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables restart
> Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
> Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter                    [  OK  ]
> Unloading iptables modules:                                [FAILED]
> Applying iptables firewall rules:                          [  OK  ]
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated…
> 
> Regards,
> Mitch


I don't know about iptables thing, but regarding sendmail - what if you shut
down sendmail and start it over?:

#service sendmail stop
#ps aux | grep -I mail

If there are instances of sedmail running:
#killall sendmail
#ps aux | grep -I mail

If clean:
#service sendmail start

And check then maillog.



Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

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