please deactivate services by default!

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 22:35:21 UTC 2008


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>>> I have some services found being activated by default that should be
>>> removed for the following reasons:
>>>
>>> 1. sendmail: starts way too slow,
>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've 
>> removed the localhost entry from your hosts file.  Either of those
>> needs to be fixed anyway.
> 
> the slow part is the aliases generation.

Oh, if only unix-like systems had a common tool to quickly determine if 
the source text file is newer than the dependent db...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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