I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off sendmail and run without it. Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok. Thanks, Jerry
The machine will run fine. The question is do you need it to send you email for alerting reasons? On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote:> I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > sendmail > and run without it. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.net "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
> The machine will run fine. The question is do you need it to send you > email for alerting reasons? > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > > >/ I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > />/ sendmail > />/ and run without it. > /Jim Thanks - I thought it would be ok - but just wanted to check. No - there are no alerts from this particular device that I need/want. jerry
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > sendmail > and run without it. > Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok.Mail delivery can still work with sendmail turned off. The daemon is just there to receive mail. This guy explains it better than I can: http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/sendmail.html There's no reason to turn the MTA on unless you're running a mail server. Non-mail servers should just have a cron job flushing the submission queue just in case, but the MTA itself doesn't need to run. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd (04) 460-2531 : (021) 295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110920/74210580/attachment-0002.sig>