On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 20:26, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > On Sun Jun 29, 2003 at 01:59:28AM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote: > > Any insights why I should run inetd on a desktop machine ? > > I use ppp which depends on netbase which depends netkit-inetd which runs > > an inetd daemon but I have no use of it at least it seems to me . > > Because exim runs per default via inetd.
But I use ssmtp which uses no daemon. So my inetd is only a non-service to me. > Are you from the gentoo refugee camp? Why is it bad to run inetd on a > desktop machine? No it's not necessarily bad. It's just that I don't need it. And I think I should have the flexbility provided to remove a package that I don't use. Right? :) -- ZHAO Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/zhaoway/ Linux & Free Software Consultant, Nanjing, China -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
