On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, gene Campbell wrote:
> Question: How important is it to understand all the details with regard
> to installation and starting up? And, if you think it is important, what
> resources should I get ahold of to fast track the learning process?
Being a Qmail neophyte (I've been running it for about five days now), I'm
drawing on my system administration experience rather than Qmail experience
here: I'd say that it's very nice to understand all the details, because
then you'll have a much easier time troubleshooting the system and what's
going on with it. Understanding a system (whether it's an MTA, a router,
whatever) on a deep enough level gets you to the point where much of the
first steps of troubleshooting is almost intuition-driven rather than "must
go through this extensive list of steps to figure out what's wrong" sort of
thing.
-roy
