Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW I think I said earlier that I accepted the need for sendmail because > some other stuff assumes it exists. I should have said that the other > stuff assumes the sendmail *program* is available, but it doesn't assume > there is a sendmail *daemon* actually running. AFAIK you could just turn > it off. It's not consuming significant resources so it's not a big deal, > but from a security standpoint it's good practice not to run stuff you > don't need. I'm sure you are right. On the other hand, there are a large number of services running on modern systems whose purposes are shrouded in mystery for me, and I would imagine most users. I see from "chkconfig --list" that I have 37 services running, 17 of which are complete mysteries to me. Could I safely turn off rpcgssd? Who knows. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
