Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Steve Searle]

Around 01:17pm on Thursday, September 11, 2008 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled:

> > There's quite a few "running by default" services that don't seem
> > sensible defaults.  e.g. There's an ISDN service, and that's such an
> > unusual type of comms that I'd expect anyone using it would know how to
> > turn on the service for themselves.
> 
> I noticed that.
> It was such an odd choice I assumed that some program must use something
> from the ISDN service.
> I guessed it was probably NetworkManager, which seems to use everything.

I alsways switch off ISDN without causing any problems.  But then I also
turn off NetworkManager.

Steve

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