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. > > 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... > > 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'm not trying to start a flamewar. I am just curious. +1. I haven't used sendmail in over 5 years and have to keep remembering to turn the damn thing off (servers run postfix, clients talk to port 25 directly). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
