ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Charles.Tips wrote:

>> var/log/messages has this every 10 minutes.  Is it because sshd might be
>> running out of inetd?  If so what would be the solution to this?  Thank
>> you for any help.  I am running freeBSD 5.2.1 p10
>>
>> .Charlie
>  
>

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Trevor B. Sullivan wrote:

> I'm having this same problem with the same version of FreeBSD(5.2.1). I
> only noticed it after I enabled the sshd daemon. I haven't modified much
> of anything, so I don't see how I could have caused this...would be
> happy if someone had a solution. :-)
>
> Trevor

Hmm, are you running sshd from inetd as well?

sshd(8) is enabled by adding:

     sshd_enable="YES"

    to /etc/rc.conf.  It is started at bootup
and it seems likely that running it from inetd
as well would cause an error message such as
the one(s) you are describing.

Kevin Kinsey