Re: completely removing directory so i can start over

[Theodore Knab <tjk@annapolislinux.org>]

Hello fellow Debian user,

Looks like you will have to manually remove the files that were not
removed by the debian package tool.

Make sure you have a backup of the files you will be using.

update your locate database # much faster than find ;-)

updatedb

find where all the ldap stuff is hiding

I use this type of search.

locate ldap | grep -v home | grep -v 'usr/src/'

destroy it

rm -fr /etc/ldap
rm -fr /etc/openldap
rm -fr /var/lib/ldap

reinstall your ldap stuff

recreate your directory

> cderr:/usr/src# dpkg --purge slapd ldap-utils ldap-gateways
> (Reading database ... 101593 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing slapd ...
> Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd.
> dpkg - warning: while removing slapd, directory `/etc/ldap/schema' not
> empty so not removed.
> dpkg - warning: while removing slapd, directory `/etc/ldap' not empty so
> not removed.
> Purging configuration files for slapd ...
> Removing ldap-utils ...
> Removing ldap-gateways ...
> cderr:/usr/src# dpkg -i ldap-utils_2.0.23-3_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package ldap-utils.
> (Reading database ... 101541 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking ldap-utils (from ldap-utils_2.0.23-3_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up ldap-utils (2.0.23-3) ...