From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 08:43:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:43:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bcefire1.cibcwg.com (mail1.cibc.ca [207.61.221.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22978 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:43:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from WALKERSC@cibc.ca) Message-Id: <199811091643.IAA22978@hub.freebsd.org> Received: id LAA16609; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:25:54 -0500 Received: by gateway id ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:35:07 -0500 From: "Walker, Scott" To: "\"Willow\" " , "\"Quintin Oliver\" " Cc: "\"Jerry Bell\" " , "\"freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG\" " Subject: RE: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:35:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA22980 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am of the opnopn "to each, his own" NT does stuff, freebsd does stuff, unix does stuff, unix may do certian things better, NT may do certiain things better. As long as it does what you want, go for it. But it is obvious he made several mistakes 1. Running 3.0-Devel in a production enviroment is no a good idea. they have a stable version for a reason 2. if 3.0 didn't work why didn't he try 2.0. just my .02 ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Author: "Quintin Oliver" [SMTP:quintin@smlt.com] at BCEEXCH Date: 11/9/98 12:00 PM 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message