It's most likely due to the ports being held open, after dbmail-imapd is killed. It can't bind when the kernel says the ports are still in use. There's a /proc setting you can change to speed the port recycling up I think, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle - 1 is for fast recycling. Might not be your problem, but worth checking...
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 17:08, Micah wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running dbmail 1.2 on a redhat 7.2 server with mysql 4.x > > I've been getting this error when I'm starting up imapd and pop3d lately: > > CreateSocket(): could not bind address to socket > > if I retry enough times, it works. Once started, everything works fine. It's > kinda like starting my old 68 Chrysler.. Any ideas on what might be causing > this? I cranked the log level and this is all I get. > > Thanks, > -Micah
