console error message

[Jay O'Brien]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>  
Dan, Thanks. I appreciate your help.

Jay