I wish to disable/uninstall/deactivate Majordomo from my RAQ 4 system.

Anyone know how to?

Matt


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Matt Probert wrote:

> I wish to disable/uninstall/deactivate Majordomo from my RAQ 4 system.

How did you install it? If you used a packaging system, such as RPM, all
you'll need to do is remove the package. Job done.

If you installed from source code, things could be a little more
complicated. If you still have the original build directory then you might
be able to "cd" into it and "make uninstall" to uninstall all its files,
but this won't always work.

As a last resort, you should be able to unpick it from the rest of the
system. First, check through any cron jobs and comment out those that
appear to be majordomo-related. Secondly, if there's some kind of
majordomo daemon running, kill it and remove it from your init scripts.
Last, check your mail server configuration, as there will probably be a
few places that majordomo hooks into that, to instruct the mail server to
pass incoming list messages to majordomo.

Exactly how you do all this will depend on your OS/distribution and mail
server. RaQ 4 probably means an old version of Red Hat, so RPM should be
your first point of call:

rpm -qa | grep -i majordomo

should give you a list of all majordomo-related packages installed:

rpm -e X

should eradicate package X from your system.

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Toby A Inkster <usenet200801@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>Matt Probert wrote:
>
>> I wish to disable/uninstall/deactivate Majordomo from my RAQ 4 system.
>Exactly how you do all this will depend on your OS/distribution and mail
>server. RaQ 4 probably means an old version of Red Hat, so RPM should be
>your first point of call:
>
> rpm -qa | grep -i majordomo
>
>should give you a list of all majordomo-related packages installed:
>
> rpm -e X
>
>should eradicate package X from your system.

Thank you, Toby.

RPM did find Majordomo, and appeared to erase it when told to do so.
As you may have guessed, it comes preinstalled with the RAQ4 Red Hat
based Linux o/s, I didn't install it.

Despite my host's claims that it was not being used to Spam, I have
suspicion it was, I was receiving emails from the Majordomo system
reporting errors and the like sending emails to people. However, I
don't use mailing lists, so it had no business being installed, let
alone active.

Matt


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Matt Probert wrote:
> RPM did find Majordomo, and appeared to erase it when told to do so.
> As you may have guessed, it comes preinstalled with the RAQ4 Red Hat
> based Linux o/s, I didn't install it.

You should also look at your /etc/aliases file for any entries refering
Majordomo or it's lists.