Yesterday, I was testing my new nagios system. Therefore I stopped dovecot for testing. After the testing I will start dovecot, but there will be an error:
Starting dovecot: Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use
I’m using DirectAdmin 1.31.4 and Debian 3.1. The error says that port 143 already used is. When I use: netstat –tulpen, I see that inetd used port 143:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 20219387 9239/inetd
Inetd has take over the port when dovecot was stoppig. Is that normally or I must think of a rootkit or hackingattempt?
Is this problem solved by a reboot? Or does the problem become then larger? Can I kill the pid from inetd? And start dovecot and start inetd after dovecot?
Sorry for my English..
Starting dovecot: Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use
I’m using DirectAdmin 1.31.4 and Debian 3.1. The error says that port 143 already used is. When I use: netstat –tulpen, I see that inetd used port 143:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 20219387 9239/inetd
Inetd has take over the port when dovecot was stoppig. Is that normally or I must think of a rootkit or hackingattempt?
Is this problem solved by a reboot? Or does the problem become then larger? Can I kill the pid from inetd? And start dovecot and start inetd after dovecot?
Sorry for my English..
