inetd[469] messages

[James Long]

> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:11:39 +0000
> From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
> Subject: inetd[469] messages
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> Hi, I've recently installed/upgraded to freebsd 6.0 from freebsd 4.9. Most 
> things have gone very smoothly and I thank the developers.
> 
> However, I'm seeing a lot of these messages in the system log
> 
> Dec 29 02:41:46 www inetd[469]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> 
> It seems like these are every 10 minutes. I suppose it's something obvious, but 
> I don't know what.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> -- 
> Robin Becker

It's not "anything obvious" if you don't post any info.  Since inetd
is the one making the complaining log entries, why not post inetd.conf?

Just a guess, but I'd venture that you're running ssh as a daemon AND
from inetd.conf.  If so, remove the entry from inetd.conf.

But without seeing your inetd configuration, that's pure speculation.