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From: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@reillyplating.com>
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Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:12:06 -0500
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I'm sorry FreeBSD is beyond your level of comprehension.  Hopefully NT will
be more suited to your abilities.


> 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.
>  
> 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:
>  
> 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.
>  
> I read all the news on how unix is going to give microsoft a run for the
> operating system market. I don't believe it for a second.


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