Re: Sendmail on installer CD

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
:Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:> :That's not what I meant. :)
:> :
:> :I was wondering whether or not Sendmail has an actual
:> :purpose, being on, when booting off the dfly installer CD,
:> :and if not, have it disabled (for the CD only).
:> :
:> :(There being a /etc and a /etc.hdd on the CD.)
:> :
:> :/Jonas Sundström.                www.kirilla.com
:> 
:>     No purpose at all.  I was just being lazy and hadn't vetted the
:>     rc.conf. We can probably turn off sshd too, since you can't login
:>     with it without putting a password on root anyhow.  A
:>     PFI-installed ssh key could also turn on sshd.
:
:Joerg and Jeroen have also mentioned disabling /procfs on the LiveCD
:too, and I agree with them... unless there's an objection, I'll take it
:(and make it a non-default option in the installer, for the installed
:system.)
:
:-Chris

    I suppose we could, but procfs isn't all that invasive.  Doesn't gdb
    need it?  It could be useful.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>