Which processes doi Really Need

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Thu Jan 13 20:34:31 UTC 2005


Am Do, den 13.01.2005 schrieb Kevin Fries um 20:57:

> | *sendmail
> I wish Linux distros would stop installing this by default.  If you have
> a smtp and either a pop or imap server you collect email from, it is
> safe to remove this.  However, if you do not have such a servers
> available to you, you will need to keep this.

> Kevin Fries

Is this comment about any MTA installed during initial system install or
especially against Sendmail? What's the matter with it? The 3 MTA's
Fedora Core ships are configured by default to only listen on localhost
and are this way not reachable from outside - independent from packet
filter settings. And a question: how do you want to get i.e. the
logwatch mail or information mail about failed cronjobs or something
similar if not MTA service is running locally?

Jim, I recommend to keep Sendmail running as it is for those reasons.

Alexander


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