On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 23:51 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > Hi, > > My fedora 5 installation is working fine except some annoying boot > time. During boot, when it reaches the part of starting sendmail it > takes about 2 minutes and another 1 minute for the sm_client. Well I > have nothing against it but my boot process seems to take forever. By > the way what is this "sm_client" thing? I am not intending to use any > mail server so is it safe to turn off the sendmail? Will this affect > other programs? and is it ok to turn off "sm_client" and how? I run FC5 on my laptop with sendmail disabled on boot and no sm_client. Actually, I've disabled sendmail on every desktop installation of Fedora that I can remember. IMHO sendmail is necessary only if you want to run a mail server. If you are just running Fedora as a desktop OS, sendmail is still used by certain applications, such as logwatch (I think) to send email notifications and reports to user root. Other applications such as mdadm (for RAID systems) and fetchmail also use it. For me, I don't see the need to run sendmail because I don't have RAID on my laptop, I don't use fetchmail and I get annoyed by email reports to root (for my laptop -- not my servers!). None of the applications I use on a daily basis have been impacted in any way. I still send and receive email (using an external SMTP server) with Evolution, use OpenOffice for my reports, documents, spreadsheets, etc., and use Firefox for browsing. Hope this helps ! -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
