On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:47:03AM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
OK. By the way, I tried to send you (Frank) the full texts as you requested, but got a mail delivery failure back from
: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)" Could you check your mail setup? Sorry to everyone else for sending this on a public list, but at least I know this message will get through.
Apologies Michael. I've been setting up FreeBSD on another hard drive in this box and when I came to setting up qmail I fouled up big-style - created all the aliases in /var/qmail rather than /var/qmail/aliases and then ran fetchmail without the keep option thus bouncing and losing a pile of mail. If you could post that stuff again I'd be grateful and I'll try not to bounce it this time ;-) I thought while I'm about it I'd give the list my impressions of BSD at the risk of being pulled up for being OT. Easy to install using the installation guide and I like the BSD way of using disk slices rather than being constrained by the extended/primary partitions nonsense. Subjectively the machine seems a lot quicker although I haven't run any benchmarks and in any case it's on a different HD. Kernel configuration & compilation is easier than linux and all my frequently used apps/tools have compiled without problems (I prefer compilation rather than packages). System setup takes the same amount of time as linux ie sorting out your shell, terminal, name resolution, routing etc. although I tend to do all that stuff by hand so your mileage might vary. Annoyingly generic kernel not compiled with option to read/write ext2fs, so had to re-compile fairly immediately. Boots up & shuts down a lot quicker as a result of not having the System V-type shell scripts under /etc/rc.d, just has /etc/rc.conf & /etc/rc.local, the first of which is obviously parsed a lot quicker than a whole heap of files symbolically linked and written in tortuous and somewhat arcane shell. Although all my hardware is supported my guess is that a lot less hardware than linux is supported. On the whole though very impressed so far with how it all hangs together. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ Such a foolish notion, that war is called devotion, when the greatest warriors are the ones who stand for peace.