tcpserver error in /var/qmail/log/smtpd

[numa at thenuma.com]

I seem to remember a qmail flag for increasing the verbosity of error
message logging.  Try increasing that, and watching the sparks fly, then
kill qmail, before it fills your drive.  Kris

> richard sonnier wrote:
>> I have qmail 1.51 installed on redhat 7.3
>> It is working fine.
>> I keep getting this error message in /var/qmail/log/smtpd. It is
>> continuously putting out this. Fills up 98K in about 20 minutes.
> <snip>
>> @400000003e7ad44032772e8c tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address
>> already used
>> Anyone have an idea.
>> Richard sonnier
>
> Looks like you've got something wrong with whatever's listening to the
> mail port.  Exactly what's wrong is hard to diagnose from the log
> message (unless it's encoded in that long number), but I'd check for
> overlaps in your tcpserver, daemontools (if you installed this with
> qmail), xinetd, inetd, and sendmail (or any other stand-alone MTA)
> configurations, and check what's currently running via "netstat -lnp".
>
> You probably have two services trying to listen to the same port...
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> --
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
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