OpenBSD

[Don Harrop]

I know..  Some of those flames are unreal!

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote:

> I wish that kind of attitude would stream over into some of the freshmeat
> posters...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Furmanek, Greg [mailto:Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:45 AM
> To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
> Subject: RE: OpenBSD
> 
> 
> I have to concur with your statements.
> 
> OpenBSD is very well engineered.  They have the
> best man pages in the industry.  Authors of most
> of the software are too paranoid to develop/release 
> sloppy software.  
> 
> The Wolf
> 
> 
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Mike Starke [mailto:mgcon@neta.com]
> -> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:48 PM
> -> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> -> Subject: OpenBSD
> -> 
> -> 
> -> I know this is the linux list, but I have just installed
> -> OpenBSD, and I think I am hooked. I installed it a year
> -> or so ago for a standalone anon ftp server, never had a problems
> -> with it, but never spent much time on it.
> -> 
> -> Just recently we have been having problems with our users
> -> dropping their connections to a remote Citrix server (Our ASP).
> -> They have always had the dropped connections after a random
> -> amount of time.  I had always experienced dropped ssh connections,
> -> but I have always just delt with it. I know ipchains
> -> has a history of the ssh problem (others?), didn't want
> -> to get creative w/ipchains, so I thought I would give OpenBSD
> -> a try. I'm hooked.  Never have I seen such outstanding man pages.
> -> 
> -> ipf seems so much more intuitive than ipchains. ipnat was 
> -> also a piece
> -> of cake.
> -> 
> -> One question I do have before I get carried away with how 
> -> much I enjoy
> -> BSD is this: Has anyone got Qmail and MySQL running under OpenBSD.
> -> I noticed qmail is available as a package, but I didn't see MySQL.
> -> Anyone have any tips they can offer.
> -> 
> -> Hope the BSD thread isn't out of line here.
> -> 
> -> Mike
> -> mgcon@getnet.com
> -> http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
> -> Phoenix, AZ
> -> USA
> -> 
> -> 
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