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Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

frank_14 — Thu, 15 May 2014 01:40:59 GMT

I am getting these errors when booting the system, can anyone help
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Mar 14 12:02:26 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP+queuein
g@00:30:00
Mar 14 12:02:26 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocke
t: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Mar 14 12:02:26 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP sock
et
Mar 14 12:03:16 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocke
t: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
Mar 14 12:03:16 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocke
t: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Mar 14 12:04:09 tghcito1 above message repeats 10 times
Mar 14 12:03:16 tghcito1 sendmail[13093]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP sock
et

I just update sendmail to the newest version,
and I have no problem with old version.
I tried to change options in sendmail.cf
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=578,
-->
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,
but it's no help.
Can someone give me a sample of sendmail.cf for HP-UX 11.0,
Thanks

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Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

T G Manikandan — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:45:14 GMT

the port is already in use.

check the port 25.

Use lsof to check the process using 25.
Stop it and check it out.
Do check whether the sendmail is already running

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

Michael Tully — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:28:31 GMT

you might already have more than one sendmail process running. Stop and restart sendmail.

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
# ps -ef | grep sendmail | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -5
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:34:48 GMT

Hi,

Check whether any sendmail instance is already running.

#ps -ef | grep sendmail

Check whether the port 25 ( SMTP ) is already listening.

#netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 25

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

frank_14 — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:50:31 GMT

I'm sure sendmail is not already running.
and I did as you wrote again,but no change.
there is no port 25 used,I run netstat -a | grep smtp,I got the output,
# netstat -a | grep smtp
tcp 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN
I found the same result on other server like this,but the sendmail can restart normally.
Are there some reasons with lan setting,I used two lan card with different ip in this server.
anything else for me,thanks

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

frank_14 — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:09:50 GMT

I did this first,
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
No sendmail server running

It's strange,I don't start sendmail,
but I found the message like below,
netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 25
tcp 0 0 *.25 *.* LISTEN
How can find PID and kill it.

thanks,

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:26:44 GMT

Clearly indicates some service is listening at port 25. get lsof tool and run find the service running at that port

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

T G Manikandan — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:28:00 GMT

I think you are running both IPv4 and IPv6 and this is conflicting in using the same port.

Just enabling IPv6 should be okay.

Just modify your sendmail.mc file to have some thing like

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA, Family=inet6')

Thanks

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

Dusan Krasa — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:35:34 GMT

Donwload pro. lsof ( list open file ).

#lsof | grep TCP

Result will be, what daemon bound port 25.

Example:
... :smtp

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

David_246 — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:01:12 GMT

am I reading it wrong ??

# SMTP daemon options
# The options are "option=value" pairs. The supported options are:

So shouldn't it be :
O DaemonPortOptions=578

At least the "," is not supposed as I can see throught the explanation.

Might be stuppid answers, but sometimes stuppid suggestions can help a lot :)

Regs David

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

frank_14 — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:50:55 GMT

I am sorry I seldom came here in two days.
and thanks for any responses,good or bad.
I am tring now as your suggestions,I will report the result as fast as I can.
and I just check the sendmail.cf,there are
some options:

# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E

# SMTP client options
O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=0.0.0.0

(I used the newest version)

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

frank_14 — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:04:46 GMT

I found the files in my server,
/var/adm/sw/save/PHNE_17190/INETSVCS-RUN/sbin/init.d/sendmail
/var/adm/sw/save/PHNE_17190/INETSVCS-RUN/usr/sbin/sendmail

so I noticed smtp was started by inetd.
/sbin/init.d/inetd stop
then sendmail can start up.

I studied a lot from your responses.
thanks again.

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:36:21 GMT

Notice to sendmailers.

If you are using sendmail.mc for macros and you change your network setup:

And you have the daemon setup to accept mail as follows:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=66.92.171.212, Name=MTA')

Note that if for some reason you change your network setup and the IP address stated above no longer exists on the local server.

The sendmail daemon will start run for a little while and generate the error message that started this call. This applies to HP-UX and Linux sendmail 8.11 and 8.12

The situation will not be intuitive and will be hard to diagnose.

The original owner of this call should have assigned points. If this call comes up in a search the documentation will be more complete.

SEP

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:03:11 GMT

Hi frank,

Check the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file for just *where* it's defining it's queue directory.
Default is /var/spool/mqueue - but will be wherever the file defines it.

Look for
O QueueDirectory=

IF that doesn't exist, that would explain the lead error msg.

My 2 cents,
Jeff

Re: Sendmail (daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use)

Piotr Kierklo — Wed, 14 May 2014 14:50:59 GMT

I had this error messa, when (for some weird reasons) options in my sendmail.cf file were duplicated (so all of them appeared twice).

Cleaning duplicates and restarting sendmail, helped, no error anymore.