[svlug] Re: swap setup

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronl at vitelus.com (aaronl at vitelus.com):

> Dang, I wonder why RedHat will make the machine a name server by default.

>From what I recall of the 5.1 installer for Intel, it asks you at one
point, late in the installation, which services to enable at startup
time.  If the PPC version does likewise, then you presumably left
"named" checked in that list.

> As for lpd and sendmail, can I specify a remote host to be my default SMTP
> and lpd server?

For sendmail, you may not quite be following what running it as a daemon
(running all the time as a background process) is all about:  As I 
indicated in my earlier reply, doing the latter makes your machine be
constantly reachable for _inbound_ SMTP mail delivery.

If your machine isn't going to be receiving mail as a peer from other
SMTP servers on the Internet, then there's no need to run it in daemon
mode. in which case you might as well disable this service.

As to printing, _certainly_ you can print to servers on other hosts.  See
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html

-- 
Cheers,
Rick Moen                      "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."
rick (at) hugin.imat.com                          -- Psalm 0.1 beta

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