deinstalling / reinstalling apache

Josh Paetzel friar_josh at webwarrior.net
Thu Sep 18 10:43:04 PDT 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:37:13PM +0200, H. Bartel wrote:
> On 09/18/2003 11:46 AM friar_josh at webwarrior.net (Josh Paetzel) wrote:
> 
> >pkg_info | grep apache will tell you the exact name of the apache 
> >package you have 
> >installed, you can then pkg_delete it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after done so, I get the following:
> pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?)
> To delete Apache user permanently, use 'pw userdel www'
> 
> Is this normal? Should I go ahead and do so?


Another thing that could be going on here is pkg_delete isn't deleting 
/usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf because it's been changed.  Manaully removing it 
will be the best course of action if you want to start with a completely fresh slate.

Josh



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