Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:54:51 -0500 (EST), Carlos Williams wrote:
>
> If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you
> install an alternative MTA and the package manager uninstalls Exim,
> either way you're left with this much mess & that doesn't include the
> user accounts and groups:
> 
> root@mail:~# locate exim
> /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base
> /etc/default/exim4
> /etc/init.d/exim4
> /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base
> /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-paniclog
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4
> /etc/rc0.d/K01exim4
> /etc/rc1.d/K01exim4
> /etc/rc2.d/S02exim4
> /etc/rc3.d/S02exim4
> /etc/rc4.d/S02exim4
> /etc/rc5.d/S02exim4
> /etc/rc6.d/K01exim4
> /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/exim.vim
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-base_4.71-3_amd64.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.71-3_all.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-daemon-light_4.71-3_amd64.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4_4.71-3_all.deb
> /var/lib/exim4
> /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/dpkg/info/exim4-daemon-light.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-daemon-light.postrm
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4.postrm
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> /var/lib/update-rc.d/exim4
> /var/log/exim4
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> /var/run/exim4

Is the exim4 daemon still running?  Try this (as root):

# /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
# aptitude purge exim4

Maybe there are files that can't be purged if the daemon is still running.