From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 5 10:35: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [209.118.236.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B10FD154F4 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 11CRO1-0001Kv-00; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:33:01 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Xwindows system Message-ID: <7ochmk$4md$1@twwells.com> References: Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:33:01 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , daniel B wrote: : I installed the XFree86 v.3.3 on my system a while ago and I have other : more important services running and don't realy need X. : Ho do I SAFELY remove all Xwindows related distribution sets and installed : packages from this system. : What is the safest way to do this? o Disable whatever is starting X (either in /etc/ttys or /usr/local/etc/rc.d). o If there are any packages automatically started that use X, remove their startup from /usr/local/etc/rc.d. o Kill any started X applications and the X server. o Look in /var/db/pkg for any X-related packages and do a pkg_delete for them. o rm -fr /usr/X11R6. There may still be a few random files (.xinitrc and the like) still floating around but they're small and harmless. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message