On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:18:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I'm a big fan of _not_ having to subscribe to a list to get a quick
hand with a one off problem (obviously not this one!)- otherwise too
many lists get subscribed to, oodles of messages come in which you
can't do anything about and so
1. Restricting mailing lists to subscribers only has been a best
practice since the last century. It's a very good anti-spam tactic.
2. However, doing so -- for a list run via Mailman, like this one --
does not pose a significant impediment for non-subscribers. By default,
Mailman will hold
Unix, v6, on a PDP-11 (although I can't recall which model), circa 1977.
Got away from it for a bit, then landed in the middle of the v6-v7 shift
and the BSD takeover a couple of years later. Still recall being amazed
by the Fujitsu Eagle (small form factor, large capacity).
And I'm appalled
Having used sendmail since (quite nearly) the day it was released,
and having also spent considerable time with postfix, exim, etc.
in a variety of environments both small and quite large, I think I'm
in a position to address this.
Sendmail remains one of the best choices for an MTA. It's quite
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
What we plan to do is backup a bunch of Unix systems to
one FreeBSD box and then use a commercial package to back that
box up to an enterprise-wide system we use. The archiver we need
must be able to make 1 full backup of
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:11:22PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
Most certainly. Use the restore function. Interactive mode is easiest
for a small number of files.
Doug's correct. The interactive mode of restore, with its
shell-like interface, is probably easiest if you're just looking for
two
