From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 08:12:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19925 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prometheus.smlt.com (prometheus.smlt.com [195.172.80.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19899 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.172.80.149]) by prometheus.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA26926; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:13:47 GMT Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA26493; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:48:49 GMT Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:48:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Quintin Oliver To: pat.groce@state.sd.us cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA19913 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 pat.groce@state.sd.us wrote: > We had been running freebsd for 4 years to handle our internet email. Last > week the hard drive crashed on the system. I had a tape backup of important > files so i reinstalled using the new freebsd 3.0 version. The 3.0-RELEASE is ment for developers, etc... I think you'd be happier with 2.2.7-RELEASE. (stable) > My experience was utter horror and despair! The new version have several > problems - my ethernet card wouldn't work  - until we turned the port on our > cabletron switch to 10 mbps instead of auto negotiate. I tried compiling new > versions of majoirdom to get the listservs running - but all it gave me were > cryptic errors. Sendmail keeps giving me an error: Needless to say, it took me two hours to configure Sendmail, Apache, PPP, and Netrek :-) and a gateway for the Win95 clients, no hassils, no problems, pure unix and lov'in it! > sendmail[131]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in > /var/spool/mqueue) >   > and countless other errors. I have to shutdown the system every 10 hours and > restart it just to telnet to it. > To hell with FreeBSD. We are replacing all of the systems with NT versions > of sendmail. And it works great! I neat little GUI makes sendmail and the > Exchange listservs easy to manage.The software may cost more, but in terms > of staff time, we're saving thousands, not to mention all the frustration. Cool! I'm happy for anyone that run's NT, and I really don't feel like taking the piss - so well done, I'm sure that changing OS's has solved your problems - Unix isn't for everyone. Yours, Quintin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message