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cannot bind a socket to port - sendmail

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Oct 26, 2003
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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 to i do 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.
 
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