On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote: > > > Am 01.11.2013 17:46, schrieb Wes James: > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Bart Schaefer < > barton.schaefer at gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Why does > >>> removing postfix remove these others. cron and the others are > dependent > >> on > >>> having postfix? Seems odd if they are. > >> > >> They are dependent on having a local SMTP server, for example cron > >> requires one to send email containing the stderr output of (presumably > >> failed) jobs. If the zimbra packages declare the appropriate > >> provides, you should be able to re-install cron et al. after > >> installing zimbra. > > > > I see that from the previous email. I have been reinstalling them and > then > > checking to see how to keep postfix from starting. After installing > > cronie, etc. back, postfix was installed. I did postfix stop, but it > said > > it was not running. I'll have to look in the start up and see if it is > set > > to start on reboot > > why trial and error? > chkconfig postfix off > > are you really have services uncontrolled running > instead explicit dsiable or enable them? > > chkconfig --list and disable anything you are not using > if it comes to servers connected to a network > > chkconfig --help > chkconfig version 1.3.49.3 - Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Red Hat, Inc. > This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. > Thanks - that info is useful. -wes