What is the event server and why would it abort on start up?

[deyjvu]

I've just installed a new server with 11.0.3 on RHEL3 (I know it's old Hat but that's what we have at present). I could not connect to the mobile client so started looking around. There was nothing in the scalix-mobile.log in /var/opt/scalix/??/tomcat/logs directory. There was something in the scalix-api.log

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.mail.MessagingException: A5 NO X-NOTIF-REQUEST failure: Event Server Unavailable
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doCommand(Unknown Source)
at com.scalix.api.imap.Imap.init(Imap.java:128)
... 24 more
Caused by: com.sun.mail.iap.CommandFailedException: A5 NO X-NOTIF-REQUEST failure: Event Server Unavailable
at com.sun.mail.iap.Protocol.handleResult(Unknown Source)
at com.scalix.api.imap.XNotifyRequest.doCommand(XNotifyRequest.java:61)
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doProtocolCommand(Unknown Source)
... 26 more
[root@lavender logs]#

and I did an omstat -a only to see the event server was aborted

REPORT Administration(omon ) 16.04.07 18:51:13
[OM 10429] Subsystem Event Server started by root.
REPORT Database Monit(Database Monit) 16.04.07 18:51:13
[OM 17708] Scalix database monitor daemon started
REPORT Directory Rela(Directory Rela) 16.04.07 18:51:13
[OM 27052] Directory Relay Server parent daemon process started. Pid = 21597.
ERROR Event Server (EVS Process ) 16.04.07 18:51:14
[OM 24070] Debug message for Lab use :
eventServer: main(): Failed to create Internet socket: Address already in use
REPORT Administration(omon ) 16.04.07 18:51:16
[OM 10429] Subsystem Service Router started by root.

So what is this "event server" and how do I fix it... omsolve was less than helpful as usual :-(.

What address should I be looking at?

[deyjvu]

ERROR IMAP Server Da(IMAP Server Pr) Mon Apr 16 18:59:40 2007
[OM 24070] Debug message for Lab use :
imapnotif_connectAndSend(): Failed to connect to endpoint: No such file or direc
tory
User Name: Amanda Dell / lavender, customtech/CN=Amanda Dell
Pid of logging process: 21743

Getting these errors when trying to connect.

Have checked the httpd access_log and error_log but nothing much in there, although error was reporting the favicon.ico file missing in /var/www/httpd so I copied the file from under ~/??/tomcat/webapps/ROOT in the other directory and that error went away.

[deyjvu]

There was a bug raised for the Event SErver abort and a consequence of that was the mobile client wouldn't work.

The resolution was to stop xinetd "killall -HUP xinetd" and stop restart scalix.

Although my problem presented itself different the resolution is the same WAHOO... thank you Stefan.