Re: apt-get remove doesn't remove daemons
Hello
Peter O (<po@dialore.com>) wrote:
> apt-get remove in Sarge (fully updated) does not remove (some?) files
> from /etc/init.d and links to them from /etc/rc2.d. For example, these
> two commands:
>
> apt-get install cpufreqd
> apt-get remove cpufreqd
>
> left /etc/init.d/cpufreqd file there, as well as a link to it in
> rc2.d. Several other daemons were also left there after apt-get
> removing them.
>
> Is this behavior 'by design'?
Ich you use apt-get remove, the configuration files of the package won't
be deleted. And the init script links are treated as configuration
files. Use apt-get --purge remove. If the package is already removed,
use dpkg --purge do delete the configuration as well.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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