My Linux server takes time to reply

[Nathalie Boulos]

Hi,   I have a Red Hat 6.2 running as a sendmail and apache web server on a LAN. When I try to connect to my server by telnet,ftp , to retrieve my mail or to connect to the web server, linux takes time to reply. Though I'm working on the same LAN.   I have the following error message in the /var/log/messages file:   "... inetd[pid] : auth/tcp : bind: Address already in use"   I would greatly appreciate if someone helps me to find out the cause of this error and why the server is late to reply.   Regards Nathalie Boulos