Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Advanced Installation Guide: 5

Preparing a Clean System

If you are upgrading or reinstalling your SIMS system, you can manually clean up your system by using the uninstall command along with appropriate option as shown in TABLE 5-1.

TABLE 5-1 The uninstall Command Options
Type of Installation
Option used with uninstall
Action Taken by uninstall

Fresh

-d

Removes the entire SIMS system along with your data and configuration files, including directory structure.

Upgrade

-c

Removes the SIMS binary files, but keeps your data and configuration files, including directory structure.

You may use the pkginfo command to list the packages already installed on you system.

**TABLE 5-1** The uninstall Command Options
Type of Installation	Option used with uninstall	Action Taken by uninstall
Fresh	-d	Removes the entire SIMS system along with your data and configuration files, including directory structure.
Upgrade	-c	Removes the SIMS binary files, but keeps your data and configuration files, including directory structure.

Note - Do not remove individual packages.

To remove SIMS

$su

Password: <Enter your root password>

Enter one of the following.

# /opt/SUNWmail/sbin/uninstall -d sims

OR

# /opt/SUNWmail/sbin/uninstall -c sims

Note - At the end of uninstall, sendmail will be restored. You will then need to start sendmail either manually or by rebooting. Also, package remove leaves the Web Server running. Either reboot your system or stop the httpd daemon.

Using uninstall on HA Systems

If SIMS is installed on a High Availability system, the uninstall command is also placed in directory /opt/SUNWimha/sbin/uninstall. If you wish to remove SIMS from the additional machines on a HA cluster, you need to use the uninstall command from this directory.