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! -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
