Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:48:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> To: pat.groce@state.sd.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981109163941.26365C-100000@orion.smlt.com> In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 pat.groce@state.sd.us wrote: > 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. The 3.0-RELEASE is ment for developers, etc... I think you'd be happier with 2.2.7-RELEASE. (stable) > 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: Needless to say, it took me two hours to configure Sendmail, Apache, PPP, and Netrek :-) and a gateway for the Win95 clients, no hassils, no problems, pure unix and lov'in it! > 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. Cool! I'm happy for anyone that run's NT, and I really don't feel like taking the piss - so well done, I'm sure that changing OS's has solved your problems - Unix isn't for everyone. Yours, Quintin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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