On 21 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:43, Erik Williamson wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > It's looking like an entry for mailman in /etc/init.d has been removed. > > If I try and do the following: > > > > -bash-2.05b$ /sbin/chkconfig --del blarg > > error reading information on service blarg: No such file or directory > > > > your options are: forcing the removal (using rpm), copying > > /etc/init.d/mailman from another machine (or forcing it to install > > again) then attempting to remove it again. > > you can also do an rpm -e --noscripts mailman > > which will NOT run the %preun and %postun scriptlets That's eventually what I ended up doing. I hadn't realized the error was coming from rpm and not yum itself. Stephen -- Stephen Granade | Brass Lantern Editor, Webmaster, General Deckhand | the adventure game web site sgranade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://brasslantern.org