Re: [CSCMail-Users] attitude and mailing lists .....

[Mark N. M. <f8...@cs...>]

    CSCMail may be harder to install than, say, M$ Office, but it is by
far one of the easier software packages to install.  Most software for
Linux comes in an RPM that simply complains that you don't have X, Y, or Z
installed on your system, offering no help in where to get X, Y, or Z, or
whether those packages themselves need M, N, or O to work.

    Maher has made the effort to write an installer that, were you to read
the directions (specify your 'get' program, have at least X already on
your system), installs just about flawlessly.  I had probelms, but I have
problems with everything since I tried running the installer from behind a
firewall the first time.

    Maybe it could be easier, yes.  Maybe someone could write the SQL to
create the database entries for you.  But over all, for what the program
encompasses, it's no more difficult to install and set up than most
software I've built from source (which this essentially is, being all
Perl).

--Mark


Mark Neill
Enterprise Backup &
  UNIX Administrator
CSX Technology
Mar...@cs...

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, james g. keegan jr. wrote:

> now maher, you need to be honest here, particularly when you are commenting
> on something so recent. what i said, as i am sure you recall, is you game me
> the same advice you had given a few months ago which didn't work then
> either. as you also recall, none of your suggestions worked. given that, i
> would say it is reasonable to conclude that cscmail installation is
> practically impossible, not just hard, for non-linux experts. your attitude
> is very bad, particularly if it is associated with an application which you
> hope that more than a few experts might use. installation, simple, easy,
> clean, installation is a most important characteristic of any application.
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:11 PM 6/24/00 -0500, Maher Awamy wrote:
> >i have no comment to what you are trying to do here except say that I was
> >trying to help you yesterday and you bashed us and cscmail by saying that
> >cscmail installation is hard, etc... I do not remember you being the moderator
> >of this list also...  nor code cscmail nor have a say in this. Thanks for your
> >silence.
> >On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:27:31 -0400, james g. keegan jr. said:
> >
> > > the message below is fairly old but i thought it called for comment.
> > >
> > >  here we have someone asking the list for help and receiving the following
> > >  condescending and ugly response:
> > >
> > >  hopefully, this was just a one-time ignorant error which won't be
> > >  repeated...
> > >  ]
> > >  At 09:31 AM 5/5/00 -0500, Maher Awamy wrote:
> > >  >pete, although this is something you should know and has ntohing to do
> > >  >with cscmail
> > >  >
> > >  >rpm -ivh blah --nodeps since you know you have the dep and even better.
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  >On Fri, 05 May 2000 23:45:30 +1200, Pete (Kiwi-Hawk) said:
> > >  >
> > >  > > Hi
> > >  > >
> > >  > >  I just had to update my MySQL to 3.22 and the DigitalDJ program was
> > >  > >  useing the earlier version
> > >  > >  that suppied this:  libmysqlclient.so.4 ...now when I try to run or
> > >  > >  reinstall I get:
> > >  > >  failed dependencies:
> > >  > >  libmysqlclient.so.4 is needed by DigitalDJ-0.5-1.rpm
> > >  > >
> > >  > >  I'd like to know how I go about giving that lib back, can I get way
> > >  > >  with
> > >  > >  rpm ivh and install it as well as what every has replaced it?
> > >  > >
> > >  > >  Cheers
> > >  > >  kiwi-Hawk (Pete)
> > >  > >
> > >  > >
> > >  >
> > >  >--
> > >  >mu...@mu... -- http://www.muhri.net
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
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> 
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