#17 make uninstall removes /var/spool/news

[Pasi Kallinen]

Uninstalling leafnode with "make uninstall" removes the whole /var/spool/news -directory. I had a newsgroup set to never expire, because I wanted to keep all the posts. Removing the directory would've been bad news, if I hadn't had a backup!

[Matthias Andree]

Hi Pasi,

sorry for the trouble, and thank you for taking the time to report this issue.

I have confirmed and fixed the issue in Git, by not removing the spool directory and instead printing user instructions how to remove the spool directory and a note that the removal would encompass archive and local groups too.

The fix is to be released as part of leafnode 1.11.9 in the near future.

You can build from git by installing git, automake, autoconf and then:

git clone http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/leafnode-1.git
autoreconf -i

then configure and make as usual.

Will that solve the problem for you?

Please set the status to "Closed" if it does, and "Open" if it does not.

Thank you.

[Pasi Kallinen]

Yes, that should be safe enough for others. I moved to leafnode-2 already :)