From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 10:53:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7224D37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.foolishgames.net (ns2.foolishgames.net [216.93.162.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2AE43FE5 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from foolishgames.com (adsl-65-42-184-166.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.184.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.foolishgames.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6PHrgnw097452 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:53:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Lucas Holt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <87vftqa5mz.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: What version of BSD should I use X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:53:45 -0000 When I posted earlier, I was referring to bind 9. It is a complete rewrite.. bind 4 was terrible. As for sendmail, from my understanding the biggest problem in the past was that the entire thing ran as root. Didn't they setup the delivery agent in 8.12 to run as a different user with lower privileges? Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)