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Basically, here's my setup. &nbsp;I've got a 386 which I use as<br />
a router between my class C network and a perpetual PPP link<br />
to my ISP. &nbsp;For some reason, sendmail refuses to run in daemon mode on this machine. &nbsp;I've tried two different versions of sendmail, each time it puts this in the syslog:<br />
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Dec 22 19:09:59 giraffe sendmail[52]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Address already in use<br />
Dec 22 19:09:59 giraffe sendmail[52]: problem creating SMTP socket<br />
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Anyone know what's going on, and how I can fix it?
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Basically, here's my setup.  I've got a 386 which I use as
a router between my class C network and a perpetual PPP link
to my ISP.  For some reason, sendmail refuses to run in daemon mode on this machine.  I've tried two different versions of sendmail, each time it puts this in the syslog:

Dec 22 19:09:59 giraffe sendmail[52]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Address already in use
Dec 22 19:09:59 giraffe sendmail[52]: problem creating SMTP socket

Anyone know what's going on, and how I can fix it?

Sendmail on two IP's?

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.