Re: Removing Exim
Uninstalling removes most stuff, but does not remove configuration
files. This is deliberate, since users want to be able to remove
software, and later reinstall it, without losing settings.
/var/lib/dpkg/ /var/log/ and /etc/ are all supposed to be there. I
don't know about /var/{run,spool}.
It sounds like what you want is a purge; apt-get --purge remove exim,
or dpkg -P exim.
This will remove all configuration files. Anything that's left around
after a purge is a bug (removing users is not a part of policy,
though).
Justin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:51:18AM +0100, Roman wrote:
> Hi,
> I freshly installed Debian Sarge and wanted to replace Exim with Postfix
> so I did :
> apt-get install postfix
> It said it removed Exim but a :
> dpkg -l|grep exim
> returns :
> rc exim4-base 4.44-2 support files for all exim MTA
> (v4) packages
> rc exim4-config 4.44-2 configuration for the exim MTA (v4)
> And a :
> find /|grep exim
> returns :
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-base.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-base.postrm
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postrm
> /var/lib/exim4
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> /var/log/exim4
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> /var/run/exim4
> /var/spool/exim4
> /var/spool/exim4/db
> /var/spool/exim4/input
> /var/spool/exim4/msglog
> /etc/default/exim4
> /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base
> /etc/init.d/exim4
> /etc/rc0.d/K20exim4
> /etc/rc1.d/K20exim4
> /etc/rc2.d/S20exim4
> /etc/rc3.d/S20exim4
> /etc/rc4.d/S20exim4
> /etc/rc5.d/S20exim4
> /etc/rc6.d/K20exim4
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4
> /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base
> /etc/exim4
> /etc/exim4/passwd.client
> /etc/exim4/conf.d
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/20_exim4-config_whitelist_local_deny
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_address_pipe
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_address_reply
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_mail_spool
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_maildir_home
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_maildrop_pipe
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_procmail_pipe
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/35_exim4-config_address_directory
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_address_file
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/03_exim4-config_tlsoptions
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/retry
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/retry/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/retry/30_exim4-config
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/rewrite
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/rewrite/31_exim4-config_rewriting
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/rewrite/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/400_exim4-config_system_aliases
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/500_exim4-config_hubuser
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/600_exim4-config_userforward
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/700_exim4-config_procmail
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/800_exim4-config_maildrop
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/900_exim4-config_local_user
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/00_exim4-config_header
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/100_exim4-config_domain_literal
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/200_exim4-config_primary
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/150_exim4-config_hubbed_hosts
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/mmm_mail4root
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/300_exim4-config_real_local
> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
> /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> So I don't think exim is really uninstalled. Is it ? How to remove it
> completely, please ?
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