please deactivate services by default!

[Les Mikesell]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Sure, but...
>>
>> - If you're just installing a single-user desktop, there's not really
>>   a usage case for a local mail delivery agent
> 
> Let's see, there's logwatch, smartctl, cron, *my nightly backups*... :-) 
> (Oh, and apcupsd for some users.)
> 
> I mean, it's not like there's not really a use case for syslogd on a 
> single-user desktop either, right? ;-)
> 
> (I'm actually serious. If you're going to break cron and logwatch, why 
> keep syslogd around? I'd love to see a reasonable argument for keeping 
> one and not the other.)

I'd agree that syslogd and system mail are equally disposable if you 
know no one cares about reading them, but syslog's output at least gets 
some automated maintenance from logrotate.  Root's mailbox was left 
stranded when you started discouraging anyone from logging in as root.

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