Thankyou everyone for your response. The problem we had did turn out to 
be a network related problem. The machine was trying to connect to a 
server that no longer existed! The problem was resolved after putting in 
the entries of the correct server name in the files: 
'rc.config,fstab,hosts'.
Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 20:39:06 NZST