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connect(AF_INET) Can't assign requested address

Hi,
I am setting up Spamassassin 2.63 on HP-UX 11.00 with sendmail 8.12.11.

I am getting these messages in the mail.log
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spamc[20824]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Can't assign requested address
spamc[20824]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Can't assign requested address
spamc[20824]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Can't assign requested address
spamc[20824]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

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Spamd defaults to start on port 783, i even tried to start on different port (like > 2000), stil i get the error. I checked "netstat -an", and tried to use the port which is free.

What this connect(AF_INET) Can't assign requested address mean? Am i missing something?

Please help!!!

thanks


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