Disabling Postfix, Raid services, inetd (new question)

Abreu Pires vivalinux at fastmail.fm
Mon May 30 19:56:58 UTC 2005


Hi,
when I installed 5.04 at boot I got always same sg:
"no RAID devices"
Is it a problem?Or should I stay ike that?
I'm home userjust for a desktop.

Any help?

Best regards
Abreu Pires
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On Sun, 29 May 2005 10:50:43 -0700, "Mike Bird"
<mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> said:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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Best regards,
Abreu Pires
Porto
Ubuntu 5.04 - Hoary Hedgehog Release
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