On 12/10/2007, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le Ven 12 octobre 2007 14:13, Jon Nettleton a écrit : > > > If you are using NetworkManager you already know that you won't have a > > network connection until nm-applet starts ( unless you use a wired > > connection and dhcp ). What is the point of starting core services > > that are network dependent if you don't have a network connection? > > 1. A lot of core services can be both local and network (cups for > example). I have a local imap service (because decent maildir handling > has been in thunderbird's "later" pipes for years). It's used remotely > and localy. Other people have similar needs. > I do exactly this as well (have dovecot listening locally). Other examples are having Samba running locally for virtualised machines, and of course sendmail, and also apache to test web pages locally. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
