[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng uninstallation issue

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed Sep 30 10:40:09 CEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:01 +0530, Jain, Vaibhav (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using syslog-ng open source (3.0.3-1 rhel5 amd64). Syslog-ng
> install files in /opt/syslog-ng directory but in the uninstalling
> syslog-ng rpm does not remove this directory. Let me know how to solve
> this problem? Is there any release with this fix? I don't want to remove
> /opt/syslog-ng directory manually. 
> 
> Please help!

if that directory is not removed after removing the RPM, it probably
indicates that there are some leftover files in the hierarchy, e.g.
files that were not installed by the RPM package.

After checking that you indeed don't need those files, you can remove
the directory safely.

-- 
Bazsi



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