more comments on Fedora Core

[Joe]

Elton Woo wrote:

>On September 28, 2003 08:19 am, Gordon Messmer <Gordon Messmer 
><yinyang at eburg.com>> wrote:
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>>Elton Woo wrote:
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>>>Will do. In any case I've disabled sendmail and kudzu, from my startup
>>>services, since I don't need them.  
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>>If you turn off sendmail, then system messages such as those from "cron"
>>will not be deliverable.  They'll just end up building up in your mail
>>queue.  You might want to keep an eye on that, or configure tmpwatch to
>>clean it out periodically.
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>So, regardless that I'm not running a server, but just a single desktop
>machine, I should *still* enable sendmail? OK ... <*sigh*>
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Did sendmail change? Back when I was using it, you didn't need the 
daemon to be running in order to invoke sendmail for outgoing messages.

Joe