From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 12:28:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17570 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17564 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA18772; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:27:18 -0500 To: VEGA Cc: John Sconiers , Steve Friedrich , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Plea to core team References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 09 Nov 1998 15:27:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: VEGA's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:48:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <86lnlkvcgp.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG VEGA writes: > i _do_ think it needs to bl clearer on the webpage, for the microsoft > monkeys out there who don't see things unless they use the blink tag. > once again, we can thank bill gates for the idiofying of the computer > world. Microsoft monkeys will always download the latest version ("Oh, look: NT5-alpha2-sp17 just came out, let's put it on our exchange server!"). I do agree that if you're not clever enough to discern whether to use -STABLE or x.0-RELEASE then the default should be -STABLE. But I don't believe 3.0 was the problem for this luser. It was that the install script didn't read his mind and configure the machine with a 10GB /var partition for mail. I think 2.2.7 would have the same problem, so let's not beat ourselves up over the 2.x-STABLE versus 3.0-RELEASE thing. (I just installed 3.0-BETA [a day before RELEASE came out]-: on a very remote ISP, very reluctantly: 2.2-STABLE didn't work with our new Dell disk controller. Fortunately, it's been running very well as the web/ftp/proxy/cache system, and a clone as the SMTP/POP/IMAP system. But I saved up enough experience and bought a clue before installing: I gave the web, cache, and mail dirs *plenty* of space on their respective disks :-). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message