[ic] how to uninstall a catalog?

Mike Heins mikeh@minivend.com
Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:54:35 -0500


Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> At 12:31 PM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Quoting Sarah Gargett (sarah@fdd.co.uk):
> > >
> > > I can't seem to find documentation for this anywhere - can anyone tell me
> > > what I need to do to completely uninstall a catalog?
> > >
> >
> >Four steps:
> >
> >     1. Remove the Catalog line from interchange.cfg, i.e.
> >
> >            perl -pi.bak -e 's/^Catalog\s+construct.*//' interchange.cfg
> >
> >        Or use your favorite editor.
> >
> >     2. Remove the link program (i.e. /cgi-bin/construct).
> >     3. Remove the HTML directory (i.e. /home/httpd/html/construct).
> >     4. Remove the catalog directory (i.e. ~/catalogs/construct).
> >
> >At that point, all traces are gone except for a construct.status file
> >that lays around in INTERCHANGE_ROOT/etc. You can remove that too if
> >you like more than 4 steps. 8-)
> >
> >I think we need to add this to the docs....
> 
> ...or perhaps an uninstaller script:
> 
> rmcat -c catalogname
> 
> ...performs all the steps, then restarts interchange?  Just a suggestion :-)

Sorry, not me. Perhaps some other brave soul wants to be the one to delete
someone's data when they misunderstand the use.... 8-)

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