cannot bind a socket to port - sendmail

[sup]

Hi, when i startsrc -s sendmail, the sendmail will go inoperative after awhile and have this error inside my mail.log which is below. Do i need to bind my socket and how do i it? Thanks inadvance.

Sep 13 10:11:51 myserver sendmail[23968]: A problem occurred creating SMTP socket
Sep 13 10:11:56 myserver sendmail[23968]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket
: cannot bind a socket to port: The socket name is already in use.

 

[charlesguy]

You have a program running on that port try telnet to

localhost 25
then read whats there for clues as to what program is on that port. or do a netstat -an | grep 25