Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 12:27:39 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:20:22 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > I still would like to know why the one instance of pulseaudio works and the other one doesn't. And why some things seem to be included in what gets started up that I don't see any need for -- things like exim, bluetooth stuff (there is _no_ bluetooth hardware on this machine), and some other stuff. Any recommendations as to where I might poke at this to clean things up would be appreciated also.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Exim: because "something" needs to deliver mail locally for cron jobs etc.
> > > Maybe not the best - others remove exim and install another MTA - but its
> > > a start.
> >
> > I don't see the need for this. Deliver mail locally where? And to who?
>
> To you.
>
> The primary method of telling you, the systems administrator,
> that something went wrong when you weren't looking at it, is
> mail. That tells you to go look at the logs.
Right. I don't see any mail that seems to be pointed at root, though I do see a /var/mail/roy file, I should probably see if there's some way that I can get kmail in the virtualbox to import this stuff. Suggestions as to how to do that would be welcomed.
> If you don't want exim, nullmailer or ssmtp will send all email to some
> smarter machine.
It doesn't seem terribly useful. The latest ones in there are referring to /var/log/exim4/paniclog as having a non-zero length, and quotes some lines from it. Which refer to something that didn't go right in September of 2017!
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