From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 05:10:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062C316A400 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E01C43D58 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:10:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.182]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWV00JX9IE52TF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:10:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWV008ECIBU93J0@pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:09:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([24.85.136.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWV00C8VIBU0BV1@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:09:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.1.385 [268.3.2/294]); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:09:38 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:09:38 -0800 From: Graham North To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <442A1692.3040805@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-442A16927A29=======" X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How to clear userland? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:10:55 -0000 --=======AVGMAIL-442A16927A29======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without jeopardizing or reloading the OS? My 4.11 box is still stable - it started life as a webserver (my first learning experience with Unix), then added printserver and was still pretty light in "junk". Recently however, I decided to add a mail server - what with naivety and inexperience and looking at anti-spam and uncle virus etc I think I clogged up my HD with too many extras. I would like to take it back to a barebones OS and reinstall userland without having to re-install OS - can someone suggest safest and least painful options. Thanks, Graham/ BTW - I stayed with 4.11 mainly because it is stable, and it does what it is supposed to do - well, on fairly light hardware, IBM PIII-600 w. 256MB. If it ain't broke...... When the hardware breaks it will probably be time to upgrade the software and check out 6.x's new goodies - or maybe it will be 7.x or 8.x by that time. ..;--) Cheers, G/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca --=======AVGMAIL-442A16927A29======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 3/27/2006 --=======AVGMAIL-442A16927A29=======--