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[brian at aljex.com]

Quoting Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> >Bill Campbell propounded (on Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:53:33PM -0700):
> >| I've been looking into the duplicate message from Jay's server, and it
> >| appears to be some pathology where his qmail server really doesn't like
> >| talking to the smail-3.2.0.111 server that answers for the seaslug.org
> >| domain.
> >
> >Maybe you should upgrade that to smail-3.2.0.118?
>
> I'm more likely to upgrade the whole machine since it's a Pentium 75
> running a truly ancient version of Caldera OpenLinux.  This box is used
> primarily for uucp and fax with HylaFAX.
>
> We're in the process of a game of Musical Chassis as we move all our public
> servers to SuSE 9.0 Professional.

I recently installed a suse 9.0 pro box and I have to say I liked it a lot.
Actually, since I still work on it occasionally and will be maintaining it for
probably it's life, I should say I continue to like it a lot.

Ran into a few little gotcha's but all dealt with without too much drama.

Ive used all versions of red hat from 4.0 to 9 and several debian-based
oddities, and several utter oddities not based on anything, several mandrakes,
stampede,... This was my first suse, and I think I really like it for
production work where you can't get sucked into fiddling with things that
almost work almost out of the box almost the way the docs say.

Some things that I was all hunkered down and ready to have to slog through
turned out to "just work" on the first try without me having to pay my dues by
actually learning the susbsystem inside & out first, releasing dozens of hours
of projected time into the breeze.

fp dropped right in (ok for that I had to have a clue and know enough to be
using a linux terminal emulator or console and not any form of xterm, and yeah
the libtermcap thing got me but that was easy to diagnose and easy to fix, took
litteraly seconds to run yast and pick libtermcap or ncurses (I forget which)
install it and rerun the fp installer.

the closest thing to a problem, wasn't. We wanted ttysnoop, and there is no suse
package for that. I was able to install the debian package for it, and hand
edit the ttysnoop and ssh config files a little such that I didn't need to
recompile either the kernel or ssh to get ttysnoop hooked in even though ssh
was not compiled with the compile-time option that allows you to specify a
login program, which is the official method for using ttysnoop with ssh.

Everything else was almost boring in how predictably it all worked.


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