From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain(c716099-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com[24.7.105.70]) (1555 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:38:45 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (cpt.kirk@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA05762 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:43:35 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: cpt.kirk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:43:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Wood X-Sender: cpt.kirk@localhost.localdomain To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: New user encountering problems In-Reply-To: <20000925191657.A26860@gotss.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: > Redhat may have more out of the box rpms > but they often don't behave as you'd expect them to out of the box without > a bit of tweeking. This is a bit of an understatement. In fact, a couple times I have had flashbacks to the evil OS installing a couple things. The assumption that I want to be like the person they designed the RPM for isn't correct. With at least one mail transport program out there, you can't fix the problem with the RPM. You must uninstall the RPM, hunt down a couple config files left, then configure and compile the way you want things. While I have found RPM to be handy for some things, others turn to a major pain. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net ------------------ Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead