console error message

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Nov 6 19:47:14 PST 2004


In the last episode (Nov 06), Jay O'Brien said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Nov 06), Jay O'Brien said:
> >>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.
> 
> Thank you! That fixed it and ssh still works, incoming and outgoing.
> What was the error message telling me, and why was it repeating? And
> why was I prompted to "uncomment" services by the install program?

inetd was complaining that it couldn't listen on port 22 because
another process (sshd) was already there.  I'm not sure about the
uncommenting bit.
 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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