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Installing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Uninstalling Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Uninstalling from Linux and Solaris
To uninstall Symantec Mail Security for SMTP from a Linux or Solaris machine,
you must know the location of its installation directory, sometimes called the
LOADPOINT. To find this location, type
cat /etc/Symantec/SMSSMTP/resources
and look for the value of
To uninstall Symantec Mail Security for SMTP from a Linux or Solaris machine
As the root user, type
<LOADPOINT>/uninstall
The uninstaller is launched.
All Symantec Mail Security for SMTP processes are stopped by the uninstaller.
You can verify this using
All packages are uninstalled. You can verify this using the
on Solaris or the
rpm
The users and groups you created before installing are not removed. If you are
planning to reinstall Symantec Mail Security for SMTP, you do not have to
recreate them.
The following directories/files will remain:
common/ install_log.txt jre/ ldapsync/ mta/ mysql/ scanner/
tomcat/
On Solaris, the
_jvm
Warning: If you are uninstalling and plan to reinstall, you must remove these
directories, as the data that they contain will interfere with a subsequent
installation of Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. You can remove these
directories with the following command:
rm -rf /opt/Symantec/SMSSMTP
(If you specified a non-default installation location, specify it instead of
/opt/Symantec/SMSSMTP
At install time, an InstallShield directory was created in root's home directory.
This directory is not completely removed by the uninstaller. To ensure that is
removed, do the following: cd to root's home directory and check to see if an
directory exists. If it does exist, check to see if it contains
InstallShield
directories for products other than Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. If there
.
LOADPOINT
.
ps -ef
command on Linux.
directory is also left behind.
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command
pkginfo
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