From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 08:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21154 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:24:44 -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 IAA21144 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:24:37 -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 PAA26991; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:25:54 GMT Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA26583; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:00:57 GMT Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:00:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Quintin Oliver To: Willow cc: Jerry Bell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help In-Reply-To: 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 IAA21146 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well said!! NT = "low brain activity"; On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Willow wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message