Frank Letts writes:
>
> ignore the statement that it worked.  or, more to the point, it worked
> for 5 mins, now  back in constant failure mode with  the following
> displayed on the console:
>
> day and time/daytime/tcp: bind reg: Error: No such file or directory

I suspect you might be having a DNS hostname resolution problem.

Make sure that /etc/resolv.conf exists as a symbolic link pointing to
/SYS/NET/RESLVCNF and that RESLVCNF contains valid nameserver data.
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