Re: Fwd: Startup problem

Hi,

This fix has finally made it into the 1.2 series. Why I've never applied 
it I don't know.

Anyway, this fix, and the fix to not let dbmail-maintenance log errors 
when encountering empty mailboxes are in the DBMail 1.2.5 release, which 
can be downloaded from http://www.dbmail.org/

Ilja


Paul J Stevens wrote:
> This is caused by a tcp socket bug in the server code that somehow never 
> made it into dbmail-1.2.
>
>
> --- dbmail-1.2/server.c.orig    2003-10-16 10:22:17.000000000 +0200
> +++ dbmail-1.2/server.c 2003-10-16 10:22:40.000000000 +0200
> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
>  {
>    int sock, r, len;
>    struct sockaddr_in saServer;
> -  int so_reuseaddress;
> +  int so_reuseaddress = 1;
>
>
>    /* make a tcp/ip socket */
>    sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
>
>
> Micah wrote:
>
> > Update: This problem seems to not happen at ALL if I set the log level 
> > to 5 or higher.  Dunno if it's chance, as I've only tried it three 
> > times, but it seems to be consistant. Sure doesn't make much sense 
> > though. Oh, and I was testing on imapd only.
> > -Micah
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > Subject: Startup problem
> > Date: Monday 22 March 2004 09:08 pm
> > From: Micah <micah@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "'DBMail mailinglist'" <dbmail@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm running dbmail 1.2 on a redhat 7.2 server with mysql 4.x
> >
> > I've been getting this error when I'm starting up imapd and pop3d lately:
> >
> > CreateSocket(): could not bind address to socket
> >
> > if I retry enough times, it works. Once started, everything works 
> > fine. It's
> > kinda like starting my old 68 Chrysler.. Any ideas on what might be 
> > causing
> > this? I cranked the log level and this is all I get.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Micah
> >
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