mailer startup problem

[Eric Fielding]

We finally got our own system disk for our DECstation 3100, and got the system
set up fine except for the mailer. It refuses to start up correctly. When I
try to start it manually using this line from /etc/rc.local:
    /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h -om& echo -n ' sendmail'     >/dev/console
I get this message:
   Sep  5 18:53:42 LOCALHOST: 2678 sendmail: cannot get connection^J

I also tried connecting to the "smtp" IP port by "telnet jasper 25" and got
"connection refused".

Is there something that must be configured to allow "smtp" connections? All the
other IP stuff seems to be working fine. I assume that this is what is causing
"sendmail" to refuse to run.
					++Eric
eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu (or @jasper.tn.cornell.edu if it starts working)
eric at crnlthry.bitnet