[Yum] Yum error in erasing?

Stephen Granade stephen at granades.com
Wed May 21 17:18:26 UTC 2003


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

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