Exim Port 465 error.

[kirstin]

hello there,

I tried enabling port 465 in exim.conf but i only get this in the log.

2009-02-10 03:13:08 socket bind() to port 465 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned

What service other than exim can be using that port already?

I Appreciate any help i can get.

Thanks!
Kirstin.

 

[scsi]

Check netstat or lsof

 

[kirstin]

Thanks for the help!

I read up a little more, and found what program was using that port with:
lsof -i :465

And it was ssmtp, a simple sendmail replacement.
But Directadmin is using Exim right, so i can safely remove that application?

Please advice, i dont want to break this installation.

Regards,
Kirstin.

 

[scsi]

Yes you only need exim not sendmail.

 

[kirstin]

This seem to be a bit more complicated than i expected.

ssmtp seem to be a service used by Exim?

lsof -i :465
xinetd 15821 root 5u IPv4 15892 TCP *:ssmtp (LISTEN)

ssmtp seem to be running by xinetd?

 

[scsi]

yum -y remove sendmail ssmtp

 

[kirstin]

Thanks, i tried that but it says none of them are installed, but they are.

I tried stopping sendmail, but cant seem to find how to stop ssmtp.

A search for ssmtp shows nothing, so to me it seems like xinetd is keeping the port occupied for some reason, but i dont know how to shut that off and cant seem to find any conf file to do it either.