Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: Exim Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [exim] Exim local_interfaces problem
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:09:48 -0800, Nick Twaddell
<nick@???> wrote: > I added
> local_interfaces = 0.0.0.0.25 : 127.0.0.1.10025
> To my exim.conf
>
> Local_interfaces was not in there at all before, so I assume it just listens
> on all ips on port 25. Well now that I added that, I get this error every
> couple minutes
>
> 2005-02-27 22:52:56 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed:
> Address already in use: waiting before trying again
>
> Port 25 is open and running, and mail works fine. So I don't know if this
> is just a warning or what, but it does bother me. Has anyone experienced
> this? Anything I should be looking for?
Look for something (maybe an old Exim) running and already bound to
port 25. 'netstat -pa | grep smtp' might show you what it is.
