Re: cleaning up bad configuration
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
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