The problem was the poprelayd script which was trying to restart the daemon
everytime it updated.
Since Exim re-reads it's configuration on it's own I disabled that function
and it seems to have resolved the issue.
Thank you,
Dave Doeppel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: <phil@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] (no subject)
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Phil White wrote:
>
> > On Friday 25 January 2002 04:49, you wrote:
> > > I am getting a slew of these error messages:
> > >
> > > 2002-01-24 20:23:21 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4)
failed:
> > > Address already in use: waiting before trying again
> > > 2002-01-24 20:23:51 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4)
failed:
> > > Address already in use: daemon abandoned
> > >
> >
> > What OS are you using? SuSE??
> >
> > Reason I ask; I suspect that you will have support for IPv6.
> > Sadly, I know sweet FA about SuSEs implementation of this, so I don't
use it.
> > However, when I did, these were the errors I was getting.
> >
> > The confusing bit is that you probably arn't running anything else on
port 25!
>
> Aha! Which release of Exim? This change was made for release 3.33:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2. Change 3.32/7 broke IPv6 on Linux, which handles wildcard listening
with a
> single IPv6 socket, and _forbids_ a second IPv4 socket. (But the USAGI
IPv6
> stack may be different.) The change also caused failures on systems that
have
> IPv6 libraries, but no IPv6 support in the kernel. The IPv6 code has been
> reworked yet again, such that it should work on all the different
variations,
> and just revert to IPv4 when there is no IPv6 support in the kernel.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So if you are running 3.32, best to upgrade (current is 3.34).
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
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