console error message

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Nov 6 18:35:28 PST 2004


In the last episode (Nov 06), Jay O'Brien said:
> This is on a new install of 5.3 RELEASE on a computer that has not 
> run FreeBSD previously.  The computer name is edna.
> 
> I get this message regularly, even when the computer is sitting 
> idle. The date and time changes, but the text stays the same. 
> 
> edna# Nov 6 18:17:29 edna inetd[438]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> 
> The only lines in /src/etc/inetd.conf that do not start with a #
> are the ftp, ssh, and telnet (tcp, not tcp6) lines.

ssh is usually started as a daemon during bootup by /etc/rc.d/sshd, not
via inetd.  Just comment those inetd.conf lines out again.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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