Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:58:52 -0500 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@ne.mediaone.net> To: pat.groce@state.sd.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help Message-ID: <36472D5C.DBB5F679@ne.mediaone.net> References: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us>
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I guess this settles it once and for all than ? :-) My question is if he was happy for 4 years using an older version why did he try to upgrade at this particular time to a newer version? Shouldn't he have done test first ? I'm not convinced yet. :-) However maybe pat feels better now that he's vented. Will we here from him in a few months from now saying how lousy NT service is, and glad to be back ? You know Pat your quick judgment goes in the faces of all those who believe in UNIX , FreeBSD , Linux etc.... How are the gun control laws out there in SD ? 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 -- When you find out the answer it's always something you thought you knew :-) Answers here http://www.freeBSD.org/search Happily Running! FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 9 19:54:29 EDT 1998 sderdau@SDERDAU.ne.mediaone.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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