Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:17:42 -0500 (EST) From: Willow <willow@tds.edu> To: Jerry Bell <jerry@reillyplating.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091115370.16921-100000@zeus.tds.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811091612.LAA09095@reillyplating.com>
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Some people like to swim at the shallow end of the gene pool. From what I can see from the deep end, most of the people in the shallow end run NT :) -- willow@tds.edu -- On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jerry Bell wrote: > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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