Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 12:42:10 UTC 2008
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).
poc
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