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. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.