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On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Been running this FreeBSD 5.2.1 server since 5.2 was released,  
> never had
> an issue couldn't resolve, especially with the help of this and other
> lists. Now I'm stumped. I posted this issue last week, someone  
> suggested
> I look at:
>

Robert,

Why are you _still_ running 5.2x?  Really, you should be running  
5.4.  Try an upgrade and let us know if that fixes your problem.   
There are MANY issues with 5.2.1, and it's never been a truly stable  
release.
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Eric F Crist
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