<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>In case anyone else happens across this problem, I was finally able to resolve it. Generally speaking, we disable rshd during hardening. In this event, it looks like a couple fell through the cracks. Once I disabled rshd (the 'shell' lines) and did a kill -HUP on inetd, syslog-ng started right up. <br><br>Original post ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>I have been migrating all of our Solaris 9 servers to syslog-ng. While
everything is working fine on most of them, two of them are displaying
the following problem:<br><br>When I attempt to start syslog-ng, it fails as follows:<br> # /etc/init.d/syslog start<br> syslog-ng service starting.<br> Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:514)', error='Address already in use (125)'<br> Error initializing source driver; source='inputs'<br> #<br><br>Any
idea how to resolve this? I may need a direct response, as I have not
received anything from the list yet (just signed up before writing
this). <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1210826211_0">o0yeboy0o@yahoo.com</span><br><br>Thanks, <br>Thomas</div></div><br>
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