RE: Syslog info.

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

it means something's already listening on the port that inetd wants to
listen on for the auth service.  try "netstat -a" to see what's being
listened on.  You may need to change some parameters in the kernel via the
/proc interface in order to tell Linux not to keep sockets in the TIME_WAIT
or CLOSE_WAIT state as long, either.

Some older linux kernels would keep doing this until you rebooted the box,
but I think they fixed that.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Nakajima [mailto:nakajima@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:13 PM
To: tlug
Subject: Syslog info.


Hi everybody!

Could anybody tell me the meaning of the under mentioned message which
came from syslog?
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May  3 20:00:33 host inetd[8220]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use 
*****************************

Thank you very much.

hal nakajima

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