[TriLUG] Help a dummy setup web/ftp

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 13:07, Mark Turner wrote:
> 
> Red Hat still thinks every Linux box must run a sendmail daemon. That is 
> always the first one I disable. There are plenty of others. See the 
> "Rule Of Thumb" above. :-)

The default sendmail config only listens on localhost, so it's somewhat
secure.  I agree that disabling/uninstalling it is marginally safer, but
not worth the trouble.  If you have no MTA at all you'll have problems
with cron and other sub-systems that may try to mail things to root.
 
--Jeremy