please deactivate services by default!

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 06:18:06 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 20:08 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 
> First, I'm not talking about root's mail. Second, how does local mail 
> not work? I get 'you have mail' notifications just fine (granted, bash 
> isn't as obnoxious about it as it could be, i.e. it seems like some days 
> I don't see a notification, but...). 'mail' is able to read and manage 
> my spool. What's the problem?

Root's mail is where things like logwatch and smart reports go.  That's
the only thing getting mail on a fresh install.

For users that never log into a virtual tty (and that's a large large
amount of them) they never see a new mail notification.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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