Hi Steve, On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steve Wilson wrote:
> I've been running *nix boxes for a while, but I've gotten WAY too > comfortable with GUI-point and click type stuff. Most of what I've been > running have been RH boxes, and I always tried to find RPMs. From > xWindoze or rpm -i -- it's all kind of mindless. (I SAID I'd gotten way > too comfortable - <it's a Windoze corruption thing, I think>). Anyway, > with SA (and qmail) I decided that I really oughta do things "right", so > I just installed from the tarball(s). And then upgraded from the > tarball(s). I figured it was giving me a clue as to how little I really > knew and making me learn. But now I'm hearing a LOT about how I should > be installing via CPAN or via the SRC RPMs, and I wonder. I am using a Mandrake system, and yes, RPM's can make you lazy. I got the SA tarball and installed it in my home directory, following the directions in the INSTALL file. I wanted to see how the program works and be able to play with it without having to su to root to edit config files. I have learned a great deal about how everything works this way. Thanks, Tim -- Timothy J. Schutte | AIM: TimSchutte | ICQ: 57061028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo: kc8hr | http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr "If it ain't broke, then you're not trying hard enough!" --Red Green ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
