Hi,

> I get the following errors when trying to startup sendmail.  I have a
> NetBSD-1.5/i386 machine, and no IPv6 turned on.  The only flags to
> sendmail are "-bd -q30m".
> 
> Mar 12 01:33:08 piglet sendmail[188]: starting daemon (8.11.1+3.4W): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
> Mar 12 01:33:08 piglet sendmail[188]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol not supported
> Mar 12 01:33:08 piglet sendmail[188]: daemon MTA6: problem creating SMTP socket
> Mar 12 01:33:08 piglet sendmail[188]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA6: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting

It looks to me like sendmail is trying to use IPv6 and failing since
you don't have it enabled. You might need to adjust something in your
sendmail.cf to make it use IPv4 only.


Alexander