> : On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> :
> : > > Not everyone installing Unix/Linux nowadays is an OS guru.
> : >
> : > If they're playing the role of admin, they damn sure should be. It's
> : > obvious from the beginning that they're not installing windoze 95.
> :
> : Okay, either I'm seriously underestimating my skill set or a lot
> : of other people are seriously overestimating the skill set necessary to
> : install Qmail without inflicting self-injury.
> :
> : Which is it? I consider myself competent, but by no means a
> : turbo-guru of *nix by any stretch of the imagination.
>
> Anyone who can read and comprehend the documentation and is moderately
> intelligent should be able to install qmail with a minimum of fuss.
>
> The problem is the people who don't want to read and learn. This usually
> includes *nix newbies.
>
Well I'm not a Unix newbie by any means, I've been C (and now C++)
programming on Unix since 1982 or so. However I'm not a professional
sysadmin, I'm a developer.
It took me a while to install qmail successfully and I needed to ask a
few questions on the list here. It is all in the documentation but
not always in obvious places or presented in an easy to follow way.
The problems I had were mostly to do with running qmail with a dial-up
ISP which is not a situation directly addressed by the documentation.
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