please deactivate services by default!

[Bill Crawford]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 23:46:37 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 September 2008 at 00:35, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Um, am I missing something here or is the answer simply:
> make

bash(1):

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CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS
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       file1 -nt file2
              True if file1 is newer (according to modification date) than 
file2, or if file1 exists and file2 does not.
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