Quoting "V. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FWIW I've had sendmail hang on startup for me before; turned out to be DNS > prob. > Try verifying name resolution. Did you maybe stomp on your hosts file by > accident during mergemaster -cv?
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 :-( 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 :-( <sob> -- Brian ----------------------------------------------- This message sent through Adam Internet Webmail http://www.adam.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message