more comments on Fedora Core
Joe
joe at tmsusa.com
Sun Sep 28 22:06:31 UTC 2003
Elton Woo wrote:
>On September 28, 2003 08:19 am, Gordon Messmer <Gordon Messmer
><yinyang at eburg.com>> wrote:
>
>
>>Elton Woo wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Will do. In any case I've disabled sendmail and kudzu, from my startup
>>>services, since I don't need them.
>>>
>>>
>>If you turn off sendmail, then system messages such as those from "cron"
>>will not be deliverable. They'll just end up building up in your mail
>>queue. You might want to keep an eye on that, or configure tmpwatch to
>>clean it out periodically.
>>
>>
>So, regardless that I'm not running a server, but just a single desktop
>machine, I should *still* enable sendmail? OK ... <*sigh*>
>
>
Did sendmail change? Back when I was using it, you didn't need the
daemon to be running in order to invoke sendmail for outgoing messages.
Joe
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