Thanks for the pointers Yes, I had inadvertently mangled my rc.conf at some point. The host is A-OK now. Sorry for the emergency nature, being a brand-new production host, it was easy to panic instead of taking a deep breath and work my way out of the situation. Personal thanks to Justin and Alexandr Cheers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message