Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 23:24 +0200 schrieb Linus Walleij: > ons 2008-09-24 klockan 22:13 +0200 skrev Christoph Höger: > > > I have some services found being activated by default that should be > > removed for the following reasons: > > Seems to match the findings from Arjans recent fastboot-excersise quite > well. > > > 1. sendmail: starts way too slow, is not usefull for any normal desktop > > user I know. Making it usefull requires configuration so I assume > > wohever uses that service _can_ activate it. > > The server people and large installation maintainers really like these > mails AFAIK, for desktop/laptop you administer yourself I never quite > understood how to actually read them execept for > less /var/spool/mail/root # mail or # mutt > > OK what's in there after a few months daily use on this self-managed > desktop: > > * logwatch disk space messages, and the diskspace is low, well wouldn't > it be better to have this as a desktop popup like "you have mail" > actually, mailing it to root sort of implies that you have someone else > managing you disks/system. > > * SELinux audit trail, reflecting normal usage and expected mistakes and > yum updates (like I didn't know, only root can do them!) > > Useful information for the use cases where end-user and administrator is > seldom/never the same person. The admin will forward these mails to > their main inbox or whatever and grep it for stuff they need to know I > believe, and collect stats? > > Then they could presumably also turn on this when they install the > system and Fedora could leave it off in the default install, no? > > Linus > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
