please deactivate services by default!
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 17:10:39 UTC 2008
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:24:45AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> ...I still feel that this is a problem. Scenario:
>>
>> If we're going to disable important system functionality, it's
>
> It is acritical system functionnality for your use case. But for other
> use cases it is something annoying, it fills /var/spool with unneeded
> data, there is a daemon running (only listening on localhost, but
> still). your use case is not superior to the use case of a user not
> wanting to have a smtp daemon in the default case.
So, before taking away standard functionality that is expected on any
unix-like system, perhaps you could ask the the user in question if he
cares if important system messages are quietly discarded - and if not,
where he would like them to be delivered.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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