Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Jack Ort
Recently installed 4.4 on an old Pentium box, with all(?) of the X file sets. Thinking now of trying to use it as a firewall, and I've read that I should not have X on a firewall. Is there an easy way to uninstall X, or should I just install from scratch again? I wouldn't lose that much, but I

Re: Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Jack, Jack Ort wrote on Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:39:03AM -0600: Recently installed 4.4 on an old Pentium box, with all(?) of the X file sets. Thinking now of trying to use it as a firewall, and I've read that I should not have X on a firewall. Well, probably you should not *run* X on a

Re: Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Cezary Morga
Ted Unangst wrote: There's no way to uninstall, though deleting /usr/X11R6 will get you 90% there. How about following? cd / tar -ztf /path/to/xbase44.tgz | xargs rm -- Cezary Morga If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)

Re: Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Cezary Morga wrote on Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:31:59PM +0100: How about following? cd / tar -ztf /path/to/xbase44.tgz | xargs rm Look up http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=121190668200375w=2 (May 27, 2008) and read the whole thread, in particular the very useful postings by Stuart Henderson.

Re: Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Cezary Morga c...@therek.net wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: There's no way to uninstall, though deleting /usr/X11R6 will get you 90% there. How about following? cd / tar -ztf /path/to/xbase44.tgz | xargs rm 1. that doesn't delete nearly 90% of X, unless you also

Re: Remove X Window after 4.4/i386 Installation?

2009-02-03 Thread Cezary Morga
Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Cezary Morga c...@therek.net wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: There's no way to uninstall, though deleting /usr/X11R6 will get you 90% there. How about following? cd / tar -ztf /path/to/xbase44.tgz | xargs rm 1. that doesn't delete