On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:20:51 -0500, Alan Hicks wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Mike dared to utter,
>> I installed qmail and since I couldn't get it to
>> work the way I wanted it to I need to remove it.
>
> The only sure fire way I know of to ensure you eliminate all those
> pesky files (and no other files), is to install qmail again from the
> same source code tree (you do still have that don't you?) in a chroot
> environment. You can then check and see what it puts there, and
> eliminate one-by-one.

That's the hard way. The easy way is to install checkinstall (look in
"extra" for your Slackware version) and in the qmail source tree, do
checkinstall make setup # answer the questions
followed by "removepkg qmail".

If you have deleted the qmail source tree, don't worry, just grab the
old tarball, untar it, and proceed as above.

> everything that looks out of place. As I recall qmail pretty much puts
> everything in directories directly under root, and makes a single
> /var/gmail directory under /var. It's been so long since I've managed

qmail itself doesn't put things in the root directory; the dreaded
daemontools does that. I think qmail's "make setup" only puts things in
/var/qmail. If it had been /opt/qmail perhaps I could tolerate it
better.
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