On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:21:15PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> I had installed postfix from the tarball, but made some mistakes. So to be
> sure everything is correct I want to reinstall Postfix (probably from a
> package), so I first need to uninstall it. But there is no make
> uninstall/remove or some removal program, is there any way to uninstall it
> properly?
The "postfix-files" file found in $config_directory, or in the most
recent versions of Postfix in $daemon_directory, contains a list of all
the files that are installed when Postfix is instaled from source.
"cd" to the directory that contains the "postfix-files" file and in
a POSIX shell (ksh, bash, or "sh" on most systems) run:
eval "$(postconf command_directory daemon_directory html_directory \
mailq_path manpage_directory newaliases_path readme_directory \
sendmail_path | sed -e 's/ = /=/; s,^,export ,')"
perl -F: -lane '
next if ($F[1] eq "d" || $F[5] =~ /o/); # directory or obsolete
next unless $F[0] =~ m{^\$(\w+)}; # comment
next unless defined($path = $ENV{$1}); # keep
$F[0] =~ s/\$(\w+)/$path/; # expand;
next unless (-l $F[0] || -f _); # link or file
printf "%s\n", $F[0];
' postfix-files
this will output the list of files to remove.
--
Viktor.
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