[Exim] Cannot start Exim

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Author: William B Hacker III
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Cannot start Exim
FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE on Intel PIII 1GHZ 1 GB RAM, 2 X 60 MB as ID RAID1

Exim 4.24_2 from the FreeBSD ports tree.

Bog-standard install, only flag as to build for (eventual) use with
PostgreSQL (which is already on the box).

Sendmail had been de-installed and its files nuked prior to Exim
installation.

Have created /etc/mail/mailer.cf, and /etc/periodic.conf with
recommended entries.

*BUT* - attempting to execute "/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start" returns:
=========================================
P?
   .
    ??..: not found
set_rcvar: not found
load_rc_config: not found
run_rc_command: not found
==========================================


- and fails to start Exim... (no lie! <G>)

Unable to find anything on any of this in an archive search, see nothing
like it in past 2 months 'eyeball' scan of the archives...

Where should I look first/

TIA,

Bill Hacker