From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 07:59:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from espr1srv3.state.sd.us (exchange.state.sd.us [164.154.5.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18625 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pat.groce@state.sd.us) From: pat.groce@state.sd.us Received: by exchange.state.sd.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:01:15 -0600 Message-ID: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:01:11 -0600 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 HAA18628 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.   ========================================= Patrick Groce  Communications Network Analyst Bureau of Information & Telecommunications State of South Dakota pat.groce@state.sd.us P:605-773-4859 F:605-773-3741 =========================================   To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message