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@fontana, I liked #sysadmin'ing for one last time at !SFLC. OTOH,it reminded me: !FSF is only place that adheres steadfast to !FaiF sw only.
Thursday, 09-Jun-11 12:50:02 UTC from web-
Fedora has sendmail installed by default? Eh.... WHUT!?
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@fabsh yeah, i'm a Fedora user since Fedora Core 6 and sendmail was already installed by default.
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@fabsh Real Linux systems have an smtp server to do local mail. Sendmail is just traditional.
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@fontana But it's not in CentOS? WTF!?
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@fabsh are you sure? I think centos installs sendmail as default smtp server. I always have to remove it and install postfix
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@fontana Oh, of course. A lot of people on RHEL swap out Sendmail for Postfix. No idea why it's still the default since few people use it.
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@macno I had no mail server installed on Linode.
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@fontana It's possible alien mind control is involved.
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@fabsh I'm pretty sure it is default in CentOS. It was on my system.
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@rahulsundaram Woo! That's good to hear. :) Kind of like sending an old friend into retirement, though.
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@gomerx Definitely wasn't on any of my VPSes when I installed them.
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@fabsh and how do you manage system notification email? (From crond for example)
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@macno Not. That was the problem.
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@fontana That's probably why I suck at sysadmin-ing.
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@fabsh why, you have the dreds of doom, them intimidate plenty
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@x1101 Hehehehe.... true. But I'm actually a pretty nice person. In person. :)
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@fontana The config file for Postfix is less than 700 lines long. What could be hard about that? :)
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@vk7hse Yes, that would certainly cut down on a lot of the fun.
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@fabsh CentOS 5.3 i386 installs sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 (that's on a default install). It's possible you did a minimal install or something
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@gomerx I dunno what image Linode uses and I installed before 5.3.
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@fabsh Maybe they use something streamlined. Default install is a bit bloated for a server.
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@gomerx They sure as hell don't use i386 ;)
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@fabsh Yes, that's the only thing I had lying around. My home server is an Athlon XP.
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