Mail Not Delivering

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Nov 14 19:33:35 GMT 2006


Glenn Steen spake the following on 11/14/2006 2:25 AM:
> On 14/11/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> Glenn Steen spake the following on 11/13/2006 1:19 AM:
>> > On 13/11/06, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Glenn Steen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Nope, I think it has something to do with general understaffing and
>> >> > continually jumping from one hot spot to the next (networking
>> >> > (switches, firewalls, VPN GWs, RSA ACE etc etc), Unix admin (some
>> >> > hefty AIX boxes, a slew of Suns, a plethora of linuces), backup
>> >>
>> >> *snip* what are you a one man NOC ? surely you can delegate, but I
>> >> know if somthing f2#$#s up it still comes back down to me, thats why
>> >> competant engineers by my side are a must ;)
>> > The term there is _understaffed_;-). Then one becomes "key" to
>> > operations in oh so many ways. Sigh. We're leasing the needed people
>> > to delegate to, but... It's not the same as a fellow employee.
>> >
>> >> > The MX GWs with postfix/MailScanner/etc/etc is what _saves_ me time,
>> >> > more time to qmail (Q for quirky, right:) or snide^H^H^H^Hendmail
>> if I
>> >>
>> >> We are shortly about to remove qmail from equation on all our virtual
>> >> domain boxes by using sendmail and cyrus, I'm sick to death of
>> >> spending 2 days
>> >> patching the usless peice of crap every time we want some other
>> feature
>> >> thats defaultly in sendmail and has been in it for like 8 years or
>> more.
>> >>
>> >> bernstein is right about one thing tho, qmail is secure, afterall
>> how can
>> >> you exploit somthing that does nothing :D
>> >>
>> > Yep:-).
>> >
>> Understaffed and underpaid!
>> That is the sysop's theme song!
>> Lets all sing along!!!
>>
>> It is so easy for my boss to give me 3 or 4 jobs, but I sure can't get
>> payroll
>> to cut me 3 or 4 paychecks!!!!
>>
>> I'll stop sniveling now! I'll just go beat my head against a server. :-/
> 
> Ah yes.... Snivelers of the World: Unite! ... Over a beer:-).
> 
I drank to that!!! Maybe a little too much!
Don't need to beat my head against a server, because it feels like I already
did.:-D



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