Disabling Postfix, Raid services, inetd

Tom Adelstein adelste at yahoo.com
Sun May 29 18:09:22 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 10:50 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 10:16, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > I understand why Linux has traditionally provided default MTAs over the
> > years. In fact, I used to use localhost as my smtp not too many years
> > ago. With RBL and other blackhole spam lists, localhost doesn't see much
> > light of day when one uses it for Internet mail (undeliverable is the
> > usual result). Aside from local mail, what role does it play on a Linux
> > desktop system?
> 
> Unixen typically send useful status/overnight reports via the default
> MTA, using sendmail or localhost:smtp.  The desktop MTA will probably be
> configured to just forward the messages to a hub.  The hub would be
> configured to accept mail from the local MTA, and possibly to relay too.
> 
> > Raid and LVM continues to run on Ubuntu when other services stop. Any
> > reason to continue it? 
> 
> It's nice to have them around if your root uses them.  Why stop them?
> 
> > Seems like inetd can also go away since it's commented 100%. I've seen
> > lots of discussion on this. I disable it and don't have any problems.
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> It's commented out 100% by default.  It's a hub into which other things
> are plugged.
> 
> Do your questions relate to stripping down your current installation, to
> Ubuntu defaults, or are they proposals for LSB?
> 
> --Mike Bird


Mike,

Neither. Wanting to verify optimizations for strictly desktop use. 

Your replies help a lot. 

Many people have complained about boot up times, response times, how
quickly applications open in gnome - firefox, OOo, etc. Comparisons to
MS Win32 abound.

Thanks for the reply :)

Tom







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