Your inetd may have port 25 bound - check /etc/inetd.conf
See if you have lsof installed on your machine:
lsof | grep -i tcp
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dave wrote:
> I have checked using ps -aux and I see no other items running except the
> exim daemon.
>
> Not sure what else would be trying to load exim up.
>
> The only thing I have done was to add poprelayd to my system. Not sure if
> it is trying to reload the daemon or not.
>
> Dave Doeppel
>
> At 01:03 PM 1/25/2002 +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >+++ Dave [exim-users] <24/01/02 20:49 -0800>:
> > > 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
> > > Not sure what to look for, still very new to Exim.
> >
> >Something is ALREADY listening on port 25, and you are trying to start exim.
> >
> > -srs
> >
> >
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