uninstall mailfilter [how to?]
 

hi there,

i need to uninstall mailfilter from our RH9 server, but there dont seem to be any directions on how to do this. is it because its so simple a fishhead could do it while it was being boiled or did they forget that not everyones a linux guru???

the more i get into this server the more confusing and time consuming it becomes...

cheers anyway...

Are you using Sendmail or what server?
The mail filtering, where does it come from? Is it standard filters or a third party application?

hi, yes we are using sendmail. the filtering was installed by a guy that was looking after things b4 me, and as far as i can tell it he installed a program called mailfilter-0.6. its supposed to check email headers but deletes stuff outright at times...i've stopped it from running but the IT manager wants it removed....

any help appreciated

Question is how it was installed.
If it is a rpm package (check with rpm -q mailfilter) then you can easily uninstallit using.
rpm -e mailfilter

Otherwise there is a more troublesome task to uninstall it since .tar.gz doesn't leave uninstall files. At least it's not common.
The way .tar.gz files use to be uninstalled i using the make command, like make uninstall, but that requires you to have the source folder left.

oh, ok. cheers for that info.

the output of the rpm cmd is "package mailfilter is not installed"
& a "locate mailfilter | grep rpm" comes up with nothing whereas "locate mailfilter | grep .tar" comes up with 2 files, a .tar & a .tar.gz - so i guess ive got the "troublesome task" as u say.
my next question would have to be how do i find the source folder? there only seems to be one location that is; /root/mailfilter that does not have any file extensions after it - i'm assuming this is the one? when i change to this directory and run the cmd "make mailfilter uninstall i get; "make:***No rule to make target 'mailfilter'. Stop."

Probably you don't have the source directory left on the system.
Maybe you can untar the .tar.gz file you found, for example in /tmp directory.
Then cd to /tmp/mailfilter...
try make uninstall
That might work.

thanks for the reply, unfortunitally it did not work...have just been asked to do a fresh install of RH9 on a new machine to replace the one we're using - man this is going to be fun esp. since i know jack about linux....

thanks again