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russotto · 02-26-2001, 01:22 PM

Maybe I'm missing something about Linux Sendmail, but it is my impression that Sendmail is MUCH easier to set up now than it used to be, thanks mostly to a set of macros. Shouldn't take more than one O'Reilly book, I would think. Back (before the "Open Source" movement) when you had to write your sendmail.cf file by hand, getting it right was much more difficult.

And yes, Oracle is very easy to set up today. Didn't used to be, 5 years ago. mySQL, the one time I dealt with it, was a PITA.

And if BIND is a joy to configure ANYWHERE, it has DEFINITELY come far.

But I'm not a Linuxhead and the only marginally open-source OS I use is Darwin (the base of Mac OS X), a NetBSD derivative IIRC.

02-26-2001, 01:22 PM	#4
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Maybe I'm missing something about Linux Sendmail, but it is my impression that Sendmail is MUCH easier to set up now than it used to be, thanks mostly to a set of macros. Shouldn't take more than one O'Reilly book, I would think. Back (before the "Open Source" movement) when you had to write your sendmail.cf file by hand, getting it right was much more difficult. And yes, Oracle is very easy to set up today. Didn't used to be, 5 years ago. mySQL, the one time I dealt with it, was a PITA. And if BIND is a joy to configure ANYWHERE, it has DEFINITELY come far. But I'm not a Linuxhead and the only marginally open-source OS I use is Darwin (the base of Mac OS X), a NetBSD derivative IIRC.