Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!sundc!hadron!jsdy From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Vanilla 4.2 BSD sendmail problem Message-ID: <314@hadron.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Dec-86 00:12:25 EST Article-I.D.: hadron.314 Posted: Mon Dec 29 00:12:25 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Dec-86 05:37:28 EST References: <490@ms3.UUCP> Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA Lines: 28 Keywords: mail,socket Summary: Loopback device Again, apologies if this was answered while our news was down. In article <490@ms3.UUCP> msitd22@ms3.UUCP (Jim Chappell) writes: >Running mail I get the error message: >Socket: Protocol not supported >Cannot open /dev/console: Protocol not supported The lines are ambiguous (or wrong), but are from syslog(). Yours seems to be compiled -DEBUG. When making Vmunix, make sure you have: pseudo-device loop in your configuration file before running 'config'. Make sure you have the following lines in the following files: /etc/hosts: 127.1localhost /etc/networks: loopback 127 software loopback net (without preceding STANDOUT tab, of course.) You may also want to re-compile the syslib and then sendmail, in /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail/{lib,src}. -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)