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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with nntpd. Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 18:02:59 GMT Organization: One FreeBSD box Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5mar44$6jh@tofu.alt.net> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41609 I have FreeBSD version 2.2.1 installed. I have also installed nntpd as a package from the same CD-ROM I have got from the distribution. The following line is in my /etc/inetd.conf file: nntp stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/nntpd nntpd Any attempt to access nntp will produce the following error message: May 25 13:57:52 wolfden nntpd[2895]: get_socket: bind: Address already in use What exactly am I doing wrong? eyager@novagate.com