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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
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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. ;-)