Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:01:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.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: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091843240.7784-100000@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF793E6BFD@ESPR1SRV5.state.sd.us>
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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 <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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