From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 23 21:22:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21AC37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E535443FB1 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 67629 invoked by uid 65534); 24 Mar 2003 05:18:04 -0000 Received: from 202.6.144.94 ( [202.6.144.94]) as user bastill@mail.adam.com.au by webmail.adam.com.au with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:48:04 +1030 Message-ID: <1048483084.3e7e950c7095b@webmail.adam.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:48:04 +1030 From: bastill@adam.com.au To: Scott Lambert Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail issue References: <7931E2E61A63FB4D9F0DECE73E05C6366B31@conrad.sohotech.ca> <1048464805.3e7e4da603d04@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030324032218.GA51136@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20030324032218.GA51136@laptop.lambertfam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 202.6.144.94 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Scott Lambert : > > 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 ----------------------------------------------- This message sent through Adam Internet Webmail http://www.adam.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message