FC5 boot process, sendmail and sm_client???

[Deepak Shrestha]

I guess I will just disable for now. I don't have any intention to run
mail server. Thanks  again

On 7/13/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> 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 !
>
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