[OpenAFS] Uninstall 1.4.11 on Leopard - afs still running, app files still there?

[Derrick Brashear]

(Stupidly sent private, here's a copy for the rest of you; i suppose
uninstall could try /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS stop first)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:53 AM, avison48<avison48@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
> On MacOS 10.5.8, 1.4.11 openafs was installed fr .dmg file from openafs.org.
> Reboot to complete installation as instructed.
>
> Then (to test), unistall was chosen from the .dmg popup.
> But after that, afs processes are still running (but afs doesn't work), /var/db/openafs is still there minus some things, so is
> /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS and /Library/Openafs
>
> Is the uninstall script supposed to work like this?

The uninstall script doesn't shut AFS down. It removes the installed
AFS. That's it.
It also doesn't remove certain directories which exist as a side
effect of the install, because it uses the "bill of materials" file to
pick what to uninstall, and, for whatever reason, those aren't in it.



-- 
Derrick