Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Fri Sep 5 13:55:05 UTC 2008
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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).
>
Turn the sendmail service off, then send yourself a couple of mails:
echo lala | mail -s "test" root
Then check /var/spool/clientmqueue/. These messages appear to be on your
system anyway.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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