Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:48:04 +1030 From: bastill@adam.com.au To: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail issue Message-ID: <1048483084.3e7e950c7095b@webmail.adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030324032218.GA51136@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <7931E2E61A63FB4D9F0DECE73E05C6366B31@conrad.sohotech.ca> <1048464805.3e7e4da603d04@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030324032218.GA51136@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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Quoting Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>:
> > Thanks for yours and other helpful responses.
> > Problem - I can ping my ADSL modem, and myself and localhost.
> > I can ping myself as address and also by full domain name and
> > abbreviated name. ie it doesn't look like a DNS problem. Except I
> > can't get out! :-(
> >
> > Error messages = zero. Sendmail simply doesn't load :-(
>
> Can you ping www.yahoo.com or your ISPs name servers? This message
> makes it sound like you have networking issues and not just sendmail
> issues.
No.
> > I have looked at updating and have collected a number of docs also
> > from the sendmail src file. They refer to a tightening of security,
> > but I am no techy- guru so I wasn't able to determine what, if
> > anything, I was supposed to change to deal with my problem :-(
>
> Is the machine not ever booting beyond the starting sendmail boot
> message? If so, CTRL-C the sendmail load to allow the machine to
> continue to boot and figure out what is going on.
No, not irrelevant. Ctrl-C and continue is what I have to do.
Then of course try to figure out why and if possible try a manual start of
sendmail - which I tried under the guidance of a techy friend, but without
success.
--
Brian
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