How to clear userland?

[Graham North]

Hi Erik:

mtree eh?   I had to man that one... and I will obviously have to read 
it again - properly.   Any chance of asking for a bit of perspective on 
the command from you?   If not, no big deal I will do a bit some 
background reading.
Thanks,  Graham/


Erik Norgaard wrote:

> illoai at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On 3/28/06, Graham North <northg at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without
>>> jeopardizing or reloading the OS?
>>
>>
>> pkg_delete -a
>> should get rid of anything not in the base system.
>> alternately, deleting /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 will
>> remove it pretty quickly, as well.  though one would
>> have to check for things started in /etc/rc.conf
>
>
> Variables set in rc.conf refering to nonexistent programs have no 
> effect. But if you delete /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 you'll mess up the 
> package database. Clean it by deleting content of /var/db/pkg also. 
> Recreate the /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 using mtree.
>
> Cheers, Erik


-- 
Kindness can be infectious - try it.

Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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