Steve Rigler wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: >> Chris St. Pierre wrote: >>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Steve Rigler wrote: >>> >>>> Personally, I prefer "rpm -e" to remove only the files that were >>>> originally installed by the package. >>> I'll second that. >> Ok. The way Fedora DS works with respect to RPM install is a little >> different than OpenLDAP or other similar server software packages. With >> those, you generally get some of the configuration for your "instance" >> with the RPM package (there is usually only the one instance, and if you >> want to run another server, you have to manually configure it >> yourself). With Fedora DS, there are no instance specific >> files/directories in the RPM. You have to run the setup command to >> create these, and this will create the following directories: >> /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - contains dse.ldif and key and cert >> databases, pin.txt file, maybe the keytab as well >> /usr/lib64/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - scripts like db2ldif, ldif2db, etc. >> /var/lib/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - databases >> /var/log/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - logs >> /var/tmp/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - tmp files >> /var/lock/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - lock files/dirs >> >> So if you rpm -e, all of these will be left behind. I don't know if >> that is expected or desired. > > That's fine for me. It's actually good because when I'm testing a new > piece of software I might reinstall it from scratch. If it leaves some > old files behind I can always go back and compare to a working install > to see where I screwed up. Certs and keys are particularly important to keep around because they may have a financial value if purchased from a CA like VeriSign. rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3245 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070718/2a06f21f/attachment.bin
