Alex
frankieh wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Ok, y'all - no flames, no laughs, no jests.
The day before yesterday I hosed my PRIMARY linux box - running RH 7.3+. Because the partition table was mucked up beyond recognition, I lost my email, bookmarks, contacts, yadda yadda yadda...you name it, I lost it. Mind included.
I was a big redhat fan from 4.x to 6.2, then I changed to mandake and haven't looked back.
Resolution to the issue was at first trying to get RH 8.0 on NICELY - didn't work. Actually, the performance was so lousy, and setting up a SIMPLE BLOODY HCF MODEM was so complex, I gave up. It was sickening. Hours gone for nothing. Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 - installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. Changed to the NVidia driver (via source compilation) in no time at all. Had to dig for KPPP, though - cuz it wasn't installed by default and the MCC still don't play nicely for doing simple setups - but that's another story...even got my IP masquerading done rather quickly - few minutes - nice.
I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of polish, quite a bit of performance - quite a lot of getting used to because, remember, I was enslaved to the RH world - but no mo. Nada. Done. Finito.
Even mdk7.2 was polished.. I still have abox running 7.2, and its uptime is about a year now.
The only issues I have now are that I have to get Postfix (yech) working nicely as it ain't playing nicely - and I'm far from being a Postfix freak - so I'm wondering about blowing Postfix and putting Sendmail on...
Postfix is faster, more secure, and the only skill you need to configure it is the ability to read.
In other words, no nasty M4 macros and no need to speak the gibberish that sendmail.cf uses.
(I used sendmail for ages on readhat and initially on mandrake as well.. so I got to know it reasonably well, but I never particularly liked it.)
Also, postfix content_filter rocks, it beats the hell our of sendmail's milter iterface...
Take the time to learn postfix, I guarantee that once you know its ins and outs, you will be a fan.
If you really do want to run sendmail instead of postfix, doesn't contrib have sendmail packages?
(I think your nuts for wanting to, but to each his own.)
SO, if y'all got something to tell me - some bits of wisdom or advice, please PLEASE tell me - cuz I've already lost three days of productivity with this and well, I'm really tired now...(grin) BUT, I'm happy it's working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really - not a joke)
Whats so hard about postfix? you actually prefer sendmail.cf to main.cf??
One is commented and in english, the other is gibberish... I know which one I prefer.
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