John,
This means that another process is trying to bind to a port that
is already in use. I'm going to take a flying stab and guess that you
have ident enabled in /etc/inetd.conf and also have the script that
runs identd as a sepperate service.
If the above is the case, then it is a harmless condition.
You can get rid of this error by doing one of two things:
a) turn off the identd service with this command: /sbin/chkconfig identd off
*or*
b) edit /etc/inetd.conf, and find the following line:
auth stream tcp wait root /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -e -o
and comment it out with a # sign, and then killall -HUP inetd
Cheers,
--Matt
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 04:16:32PM -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> I've begun to see meessages like the following in my /var/log/messages log:
>
> Jul 1 16:13:42 CV150607-A inetd[431]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already
> in use
>
> Does this mean someone is trying to log into my machine? There is no
> record in /var/log/secure of a log in. The who command shows noone
> logged in.
>
> Thanks.
>
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