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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