how to remove qmail ?

zapperabhi · 01-06-2004, 07:27 AM

Can anyone please tell me how do i remove(UNINSTALL) qmail from my system(fedora core 1) ?
-regards

jkobrien · 01-06-2004, 07:46 AM

How was it installed? If it was from an rpm, use the following to find out the package name

rpm -qa | grep -i qmail

or

rpm -qf `which qmail`

Assuming it will probably be something like qmail-version.rpm, use the following to remove it...

rpm -e qmail

John

zapperabhi · 01-06-2004, 11:19 PM

it wasnt installed from rpm, i built the source myself with instructions in
lifewithqmail....
i grepped for qmail in / and deleted anything i found qmail in.
the system still gives me following:

INIT: cannot execute "/command/svscanboot"
INIT: cannot execute "/command/svscanboot"
INIT: cannot execute "/command/svscanboot"
INIT: cannot execute "/command/svscanboot"
INIT: Id "SV" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

mcleodnine · 01-07-2004, 01:00 AM

It looks like you aslo removed the daemontools as well, so you'll want to remove the line

Code:

SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot

from your /etc/inittab and then 'killall -HUP init' to re-read the inittab and stop the attempts to spawn svscan.

After you get that, make sure you have no leftover processes running such as qmail, tcpserver.

Too bad you had to delete qmail as it's my all-time fave MTA.

zapperabhi · 01-07-2004, 01:47 AM

got it done ... thanx !!

etae · 11-16-2004, 08:34 AM

seems like u have found a solution on uninstalling Qmail on Redhat, can you assist me.

Built it from source from qmailrocks