From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 11:02:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08182 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (gamefish.pcola.gulf.net [198.69.72.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08177 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (psalzman@localhost) by gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA09198; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:01:54 GMT (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:01:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Phillip Salzman To: pat.groce@state.sd.us cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA08178 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG simple, most people aren't clueless 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 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