On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > luke<dot>kendall<at>cisra<dot>canon<dot>com<dot>au wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tut-tut. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. ;-)
> > It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn't working on a > > laptop that we installed Cygwin on recently, to wonder whether the > > information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How do I uninstall > > all of Cygwin?) could be a little more helpful. > > > > It gives good advice, but ends by saying: > > > > It's up to you to deal with other changes you made to your > > system, such as installing the inetd service, altering system > > paths, etc. Setup would not have done any of these things > > for you. > > > > This is true. But for ssh, and other packages, is there any useful > > advice that could be given on how to uninstall? > > > > I'm wondering how I get the machine back into a pristine state to try a > > re-install, since perhaps some of our post-install changes screwed > > things up. (ssh normally works just fine.) > > Remove any services you might have installed ("cygrunsrv -R ssh") and FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to cygrunsrv that would list all the Cygwin services installed with cygrunsrv. At this point I have no implementation, though. > remove all entries from the mount table ("umount -a") and that should > pretty much do it, assuming of course you removed the main installation > directory as well. Well, one could always add an "Uninstall all" radio button to setup.exe's action screen. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
