On Fri, 8 May 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > Lets suppose I go out to pub one night and come reeling home after 8 or 9 > pints of stout. Now when I get home I decide this would be fine time to > make some configuration changes on my system. ( in this particular case it > was changing the ppp settings for my new isp) So I sit down, login as root > and start blissfully banging away on the key board. When I awaken the > next day the application I had configured doesn't work correctly at all. > ( What a suprise!) Not with the old isp and not with the new. I have tried > on and off for several weeks to fix this, but have had no success. Since I > am not really sure what I changed, I would like to remove all files that > relate to ppp and then reinstall the whole thing from scratch. Deselect > seems to leave the old config files. How would I remove everything using > dselect, or dpkg, or If I have to do it by hand what files should I remove? > Thanks for any help and I hope we have all learned an important lesson > from my sorry tale.
dpkg --purge ppp Purging removes all conffiles and configuration files (whatever the difference may be.) Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
