RE: [exim] Exim local_interfaces problem

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Author: Nick Twaddell
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To: peter, exim-users
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Subject: RE: [exim] Exim local_interfaces problem
You know, its strange, it does look like two are trying to run

mailnull  5152  0.0  0.0  6020 1816 ?        SN   23:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull  5189  0.0  0.0  6028 1844 ?        SN   23:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m


But it only does that when I add local_interfaces. If I comment out
local_interfaces and start exim, I just get one

mailnull  4800  0.0  0.0  6024 1804 ?        SN   23:28   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m


Do you have any idea why it would start two? Does it start one per port
maybe?

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Bowyer
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:26 PM
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.

Peter

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