Bug#519275: purging gkrellmd does recursive descent of entire file tree

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 20:50, Martin Guy martinw...@yahoo.it wrote:    deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd  Since the package version above, the script uses --system. why? Does gkrellmd crap random files all over the root filesystem? It seems excessive, unnecessary and dangerous. err,

Bug#519275: purging gkrellmd does recursive descent of entire file tree

On 3/17/09, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 20:50, Martin Guy martinw...@yahoo.it wrote: deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd Since the package version above, the script uses --system. why? Does gkrellmd crap random files all over the root filesystem?

Bug#519275: purging gkrellmd does recursive descent of entire file tree

Package: gkrellmd Version: 2.3.1-8 Severity: minor gkrellmd's postrm script calls deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd which performs a recursive descent of the file tree, into all users home directories and all mounted NFS volumes. This became apparent because some (large and deep!) NFS volumes