On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 01:21 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Are there any legitimate reasons why the "atd" and "sendmail" services > are enabled by default? A "default" install is for a desktop and they > are quite useless in that regard. I've never heard "default" defined as desktop before. Why do you equate the two? (To me, the default is a solid base that needs a (small) bit of package selection to make an optimal server or desktop -- but I also think that the PC paradigm has us thinking too hard in terms of 'server' and 'client' and that there are lots of use cases that are combinations). > Sendmail only stores the logwatch output, which actually accumulates > after a period of time because no normal desktop user reads the mail. It > could possibly fill up a hard drive on a small drive, such as a eeePC > 4gb system. I realize we all have terrabyte hard drives now and logwatch > is only kilobytes in size, but it's still garbage. Don't get me wrong, I > use logwatch mail on Fedora server installs, but for a desktop user... > who never reads it... I like being able to assume basic outbound MTA functionality is present, so imho having sendmail there by default is a Good Thing. (But yeah, no one reads root's mail. Maybe firstboot should give the option -- enabled by default -- to redirect root's mail to the first user created (or another address of the user's choice) via /etc/aliases). > As for 'at' well... do *normal* Fedora users have any benefit from this > starting up? I realize there is a gnome-schedule utility, but it is not > installed by default. I didn't realize we're not running a combined crond/atd until your message prompted me to check! I wonder why... -- Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
