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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:28:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Willow  <willow@tds.edu>
To:        Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>
Cc:        pat.groce@state.sd.us, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091127400.17411-100000@zeus.tds.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981109082506.D10016@mooseriver.com>

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Speaking of .0 releases, what are the chances he bought NT4.0, only to
upgrade when NT5.0 comes out...At Micro$oft all releases are .0 releases
:)

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willow@tds.edu
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Josef Grosch wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:01:11AM -0600, 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.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry that you had so many problems with FreeBSD after you lost a disk
> but, to be perfectly honest, most of your problems were of your own
> making. It is an accepted principle in Systems Administration that one
> restores a backup onto a system running the same release of an OS that the
> backup was made on. You should have install that same version of FreeBSD
> that you were running on to the new hard disk and then restored your
> backup. 
> 
> Another accepted principle in Systems Administration is that one never puts
> a new version of an OS into production without testing it first also one
> never puts a ".0" version of anything into production. You should have
> stuck to the version of FreeBSD that you were running and tried 3.0 on
> another box to see if it would work properly in your environment and on
> your hardware. 
> 
> I am hoping that you will give FreeBSD another try, it served you well for
> 4 years. If not, I wish you well.
> 
> 
> Josef
> 
> 


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