[04:48] <KurtKraut> Does Ubuntu Server comes with postfix already installed ?
[04:59] <infinity> No, but "apt-get install postfix" isn't tough.
[04:59] <infinity> Ubuntu Server is about choice, not prescribed solutions.  So, if you want an MTA, install away ("apt-get install exim4" tends to make me happy, for instance)
[05:08] <KurtKraut> infinity, I'm just asking because a server of a friend of mine was beeing used to do SPAM thru postfix
[05:08] <KurtKraut> infinity, and he didn't installed any daemon besides apache
[05:09] <KurtKraut> infinity, so or Ubuntu Server comes with postfix installed or running or someone got acess to the machine remotely, got sudo powers and installed postfix
[05:09] <KurtKraut> infinity, because postfix was running and being used to send spam
[05:12] <KurtKraut> I'm trying to figure out what happened
[05:18] <infinity> He could have installed any number of things that depend on an MTA (and thus brought in postfix)
[05:19] <infinity> Though most spam bots I've seen don't use the installed MTA at all.
[05:20] <infinity> They will get in through vulnerable PHP scripts (and such), and use their own spam-bot as the www-data user to mass-mail stuff.
[05:20] <infinity> I've never actually seen anyone use a local MTA for that (though people will take advantage of misconfigured MTAs that allow open relaying, of course, cause that doesn't require breaking in)
[05:21] <infinity> But our default postfix config doesn't allow any relaying, so if he "accidentally" installed it, it can't be used as a remote relay.
[05:16] <dkesh> Hi, I've been running hoary for 350 days, then I had to reboot.  Now it won't stay up for 2 days.  Complete lockup, no reboot.  I'm guessing I upgraded some package during those 350 days that caused instability on reboot.  Are there known instabilities in hoary?