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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:47:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E landau@yu1.yu.edu (k) wrote: > I recently purchased the FreeBSD cdrom from crom.com > (I'll consider the plushie if the price goes down :) Sorry, it won't. As i wrote, it's handwork, and the price is that high regardless of whether they produce 50 or 1000 of them. (Well, after the 1000 mark, they might become cheaper...) > use. Why isn't sendmail placed in the setup as a mandatory install > requirement? You've already got a couple of answers to your questions. Actually, i wish somebody would go and write a nifty sendmail configuration tool that would make it easier for some common cases (including getting mail via UUCP which is not covered at all by now). Anyway, if you've got a complaint mail every night, i'm rather afraid that you've screwed something during your installation. If you don't actually use your sendmail, the default setup should at least be okay in that it won't create complaints. No, we are not messy Windblows, nor do we wanna be. There's already one of this kind, no need to duplicate it. Yes, you can royally screw your setup if you don't know what you're doing (but let's face it, you can also screw your Winlose setup if you don't know what you're doing), but on the opposite, you get something you won't get with M$: insight into the internals. Nothing is hidden from you, nothing remains magic if you insist on investigating all the hairy details. You've got the source for all and everything, even for how to make your own release of FreeBSD if this is your like. At the point where you're stomped with Winlose, you can dig into the sources in FreeBSD, and see *why* it actually fails. I've seen many Windows users who start to re-install their systems at this point. I can't remember that i *ever* involunteerely re-installed a BSD system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)