On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:58:21PM -0800, TB wrote: > How can I tell if I need atd? Just turn it off & see > if anything explodes?
man at man atd It is nice to have, but the only time I seriously used it was back in school. I would schedule at to print out a document in a few minutes, providing me just enough time to get from my dorm room to the computer lab and have the last page printed out as I walked through the door. It took a few tries to get it just right. > How can I tell whether I'm actually using crond or > anacron? Or both? ps auxww | grep cron chkconfig --list | grep :on | grep cron > How can I tell if something local is using sendmail > for logging? You mean syslog? See /var/log. > How can I test that my firewall is preventing sendmail > from accepting connections from outside? Using an external host, telnet to tcp/25 with the firewall enabled and disabled. Or not run sendmail in listening mode (run only -q instead of -bd). Or use a better MTA. > I ran the kudzu stop script, but left it on in > chkconfig so that it will run on reboot. Is this > necessary, or can I disable it if I don't add/remove > any hardware? I thought kudzu only ran at startup. > My next goal is to figure out what all those processes listed > by ps -ef are. Presumably they map to the services somehow. > Mostly. I would recommend you pick up "UNIX System Administration Handbook", ISBN: 0130206016. It is the SA bible. There is a Linux version as well. -Vince
