MailScanner not starting error

[Peter Bonivart]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H.
<AHKAPLAN at partners.org> wrote:
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17895]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt
> by ahk
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17895]: /etc/aliases: 104 aliases, longest
> 29 bytes, 1526 bytes total
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: starting daemon (8.13.8): SMTP
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> socket
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sm-msp-queue[17907]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
> queueing at 00:15:00
> Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17911]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
> queueing at 00:15:00
> Jun 16 11:42:58 hadron sendmail[17903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>
> Jun 16 11:42:58 hadron sendmail[17903]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> socket

Check if sendmail is already running:

# ps -ef | grep sendmail

See what services you have for mail:

# chkconfig --list | grep -i mail
MailScanner 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

Chances are that the system sendmail is also on, if so:

# chkconfig sendmail off
# service sendmail stop


/peter