please deactivate services by default!

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 22:16:19 UTC 2008


Colin Walters wrote:
> 
>>>> Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> said:
>>>>> The desktop image no longer installs sendmail by default.
>>>> What SMTP server is installed now?
>>> None.
>> So what happens to messages from cron jobs and other standard Unix stuff
>> that expects /bin/mail or /usr/sbin/sendmail to do something useful?
> 
> If there are cron jobs that send mail, we will deactivate them.

Errr... cron itself sends mail on behalf of _any_ job that generates 
output to stdout/stderr.  It is expected behavior.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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