inndstart - address already in use

[Kevin McKinnon]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Don Robertson wrote:

> Greetings,
> I am tryig to get INN 2.2.3 running on Mandrake 7.1. I have installed from 
> the Mandrake RPMs.
> 
> When I try inndstart I am getting the following error:
> 
> Nov 24 11:50:23 lila actived[820]: create_udp_socket: bind Address already 
> in use
> Nov 24 11:50:23 lila actived[820]: cant createudpsocket Address already in 
> use
> 
> Now I am pretty sure nothing is running on port 119 (upd or tcp). I have 
> tried setting the bind address in the config to my IP number as well. I am 
> pretty sure the file permissions are okay :-).

Don,

The error is coming from actived, not inn.  actived normally runs on port
1119, as specified in ~news/etc/inn.conf:
activedport:     1119

Cheers,
Kev

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Kevin McKinnon, Sr. News Administrator
Sunshine Communications Cable Internet
kevin at sunshinecable.com