From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 08:29:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zeus.tds.edu (zeus.tds.edu [38.149.131.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21623 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from willow@tds.edu) Received: from zeus.tds.edu (willow@zeus.tds.edu [38.149.131.15]) by zeus.tds.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id LAA17734; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:29:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:28:57 -0500 (EST) From: Willow To: Josef Grosch cc: pat.groce@state.sd.us, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix is a problem: free bsd doesn't help In-Reply-To: <19981109082506.D10016@mooseriver.com> 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 IAA21628 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :) -- willow@tds.edu -- 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message