I had already uninstalled ejabberd & xs-pkgs. xs-config also had to be uninstalled and reinstalled. So I had to redo a few config files prior to starting ejabberd. That has always worked just fine. But it took about ten minutes altogether.
I uninstalled and reinstalled a few times to make sure I could do so as quickly as possible. I didn't realize it would be safe to specify nodeps. If I had, there would have been a lot less work to reconfigure the server. I hoped that following your suggestion would be a bit less work. We have about 1500 schools, so I am searching for the most efficient server management processes possible. So after reinstalling jabber and getting it behaving again, I tried following your suggestion and just deleting the files. That did not work. So I reinstalled again. This process is what I was asking a bout. If we wind up with a lot of servers, I'll put together a Perl-based server management system. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:30 AM To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin had suggested that we can just wipe out the database without reinstalling the package. > > So back to the question: Can the database be wiped out and recreated without reinstalling? We haven't tested it :-/ (it all depends on exactly what triggers an empty DB setup). OTOH, we know that uninstalling/reinstalling the rpm does the trick reliably (so it is better than my earlier suggestion). It will remove the xs-pkgs package, but that won't cause any short-term problem. Reinstall it as well just in case for better long term behaviour ;-) cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
