On Jun 18, Dan Hollis wrote: > for whatever reason, star and gnu tar commandline switches are not 1:1 > compatible. you can rant all you like about how gnu tar sux and star is > superior but it doesn't matter if you can't drop star into a system and > have everything "just work". > > that's partially why postfix is more popular than qmail. because postfix > is a drop-in replacement for sendmail, while qmail is not. same situation > for star.
Well, that and djb has his own, er, eccentric concept of using software licensing to enforce his idea of how system adminstrators and distributors should layout their filesystems. (Stop me before I detect a theme here :-) Chris, postfix user -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
