Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:15:01 -0500 (EST) From: Willow <willow@tds.edu> 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.BSF.4.05.9811091109220.16921-100000@zeus.tds.edu> In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us>
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That's too bad that you feel that way. I know that if you would have posted your questions here they would have been answered in easy to understand steps and you might have been back up and running without problems. -- willow@tds.edu -- 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. > > 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 <mailto: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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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