Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 13:24:57 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, michael@memra.com, joel@quicklink.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup Message-ID: <199604061924.NAA06172@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <m0u5MfE-0008tvC@agora.rdrop.com> from "Alan Batie" at Apr 5, 96 05:19:40 pm
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> > Some other folks have been talking about 32MB of RAM. Well, maybe it was > > just me, but that did not cut it for me. > > Yes, I'm running 32Meg, and expires are pretty lengthy. I really wish > motherboard makers would get a clue. I've been running a system for over > 10 years, on 5 or 6 systems, and every time I've upgraded it's been so I > could put more memory in the system, not because I needed more horsepower. Well this is the world of computers :-) Remember even Gates screwed up, and don't you ever forget that 640K is more than enough to do ANY job. (Notice: DOS users are still living with this ****up). > > > Unless you're concerned about security, then you run smail :-) > > > > Eh, security through obscurity? Nobody's yet explained to me why smail is > > more secure than Sendmail, beyond the fact that nobody really uses smail and > > therefore the security loopholes that it may offer do not get noticed as > > rapidly. > > Well, the author did once comment about having at least thought about > security while writing it (meaning no slight on Eric). Regardless of > whether smail's holes aren't there or just don't get found, the fact > is, I've never seen a CERT advisory for it, whereas sendmail has them > about once a month (well, maybe a quarter). If all the crackers are > poking at sendmail and ignoring smail, that's still a good reason to > use in my book. Besides, the main reason I run it is that you can > actually configure it without a configuration compiler and a personal > guru :-) Guess I see that differently :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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