secure ports not working.

On a new customer server, the secure whm /cpanel port is not working. When i try to restart cpanel, i see the following in the /var/log/messages

May 18 05:27:53 xx stunnel: LOG5[5208:3086825696]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
May 18 05:27:53 xx stunnel: LOG5[5208:3086825696]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP
May 18 05:27:53 xx stunnel: LOG5[5208:3086825696]: 500 clients allowed
May 18 05:27:53 xx stunnel: LOG3[5208:3086825696]: Error binding cpanelhttps to 0.0.0.0:2083
May 18 05:27:53 xx stunnel: LOG3[5208:3086825696]: bind: Address already in use (98)
May 18 05:27:53 xx cpanel: startstunnel startup failed

I tried to search the forums and apply the suggestions of compiling Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25, etc, however nothing seems to be working.

I tried to stop cpanel and look at netstat -an and it shows something is already binded to secure ports

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2087 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:783 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2096 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:465 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

Any ideas on where to look for this and resolve it ?

 

If we edit the file manually it will get overwritten in the next cpanel update.

 

Ok i updated the file, stopped cpanel, started it and secure ports started to work.

Now i updated cpanel and the file was overwritten, back to square one. I guess now wait for cpanel to fix this bug in the next release.