please deactivate services by default!

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Actually, working by default for things like smartctl is also really 
>> important (I'd like to know if my HD is about to go belly-up, thank 
>> you!), but at least we have the excuse that smartctl never worked nicely 
>> to begin with.
> 
> But see, it doesn't "work by default".  By default (with sendmail) mail
> is just dropped in /var/spool/mail/root.  The user is given no hint,
> documentation, or otherwise notification that they may want to configure
> some email client to subscribe to this, which is quite difficult as a
> normal user to subscribed to /var/spool/mail/root .  Things certainly
> don't "work by default". 

It isn't so much that things don't work by default as that you are 
discouraging/preventing anyone from logging in as root without fixing 
everything that needs to change if they don't.

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   Les Mikesell
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