Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Hopefully, a Fedora is not going to be a new Linux user, or at least
an above average computer users, there are probably going to be
several cron jobs that send mail to other places. For example, if
you are a registered Linux user, you are probably going to be
sending an e-mail with machine stats from a cron job. Then you have
people like me that send out a monthly calender that is generated
and mailed by a monthly cron job. Others use an alias of root to
send the output of cran jobs, check root kit, and other programs to
an e-mail account on another machine. Depending on your ISP, this
may not require you to do anything except edit the alias file. Or
you may need to set a relay host. Anyone using Fedora had better be
smart enough to do that, or at least ask for help with it. After
all, if they are going to set up Thunderbird, they are going to need
the same information.

Using atd is more problematical. It depends on how the user is using
the system. For some, using the batch command to run a job when the
system isn't busy cam be handy. (batch uses atd.) For others being
able to run a job at a specific future time, without having to set
up a cron job to do it, may be handy.
You continuously explain what *you* do with your system, but have yet to give a wider, more useful reason for enabling sendmail and atd at startup.

Remember, we are talking Fedora users here. In most cases, this is
not a distribution for someone moving over from Windows. If all you
want to do is brows the web, and use e-mail, there are much better
distribution for doing that. On the other hand, if you like to
tinker, or test out new software, it is a good distribution for that.
I believe you're out of touch with who a majority of new Fedora users are. Please read the following Fedora link that references testimonials of new users. This is just a small slice of the large new user base.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/UserTestimonials/FWN

I can provide additional links if you are not satisfied. Heck, I bet you $100 (just give me your paypal) that you couldn't find any one of those users using a cron job or atd job that utilized sendmail.

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