Re: [Maria-discuss] New Question: How to cleanly uninstall MariaDB

Am 20.04.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Justin Swanhart:

Again, you must go to web site to answer these questions

i subscribed to a mailing list so frankly if i get questions to that list only can be answered on a website something is terrible wrong - not my problem how to post a ML reply there or just don't post qeb questions to the list i for sure will not switch to a browser, seek somewhere for a password or create somewhere a new account just to answer a question coming in through my mail client

The user has no idea the email is cc'ed here!

why is it cc'ed at all then?

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On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

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Am 20.04.2015 um 16:10 schrieb AskMonty KB: I've been using MariaDB on my server. It seemed to be hacked. I couldn't restart mariadb, and I deleted it with package manager yum. However, after reinstalling that I still experienced some problems (they didn't disappear).

There is an opinion http://superuser.com/a/778269/387511 that some files such as databases are not removed during MariaDB uninstall. Is it true, and what should I take care of when uninstalling MariaDB?

Thank you. I've used site search but couldn't find an answer in the official documentation. I suggest adding this to the part about installation of MariaDB

uninstall *never ever* removes runtime data for no application, not only mysql / mariadb

the package manager *must not* touch /var/lib/ at uninstall or update