On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 03:15:35PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Sure, but... >> >> - If you're just installing a single-user desktop, there's not really >> a usage case for a local mail delivery agent > > Let's see, there's logwatch, smartctl, cron, *my nightly backups*... :-) > (Oh, and apcupsd for some users.) They need /usr/sbin/sendmail, it is up to the user to choose the corresponding package, configure it, and set it up as he wants. > (I'm actually serious. If you're going to break cron and logwatch, why > keep syslogd around? I'd love to see a reasonable argument for keeping > one and not the other.) In any case syslogd is much more important since it is used by many programs. cron is used by less programs, but still it is used by pretty important applications. I really can't see why logwatch should be installed in the default case, however, and even less why it should be activated. I hope it isn't the case... -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
