Re: Hidden process running preventing re-install/removal

[anita@xxxxxxxxx (Anita Holmgren)]

At 11:31 AM -0400 5/6/05, Domains wrote:

> Found it - or one
> of them
>
> In Terminal, type "locate libPO"
>
> And you will see the libraries that post office has running
>
> What is frustrating is that Post Office has no current uninstall
> program. I refuse to run a program written for 10.1 on a production X
> Serve running 10.3.9.

Derrick, there is a GUI Uninstaller for all of Tenon's applications.

http://www.tenon.com/~downloads/Uninstaller/Uninstaller.dmg.gz

> At this point, I
> have literally "ripped" post office out.

In addition, the Post.Office FAQ contains detailed instructions for removing Post.Office by hand using Terminal.

-Anita

>
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> From: Blaine
> Fergerstrom <zztype@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 05:20:16 -1000
> To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Hidden process running preventing
> re-install/removal
>
>
> You might run Terminal, type "top" and watch which process
> is hogging
> the processor. Then look for that component on your machine. Maybe
> the background process isn't called "post.office"....
>
> Blaine
>
>
> After spending some hours yesterday morning trying to re-install
> Post.office without luck, I resorted to manually deleting
> Post.office.
>
> Problem is, even after this, and after several reboots, and not
> having an install of Post.office running, there is still
> apparently
> some remnant of Post.office running on the system. This prevents
> re-installing the program and is bringing the server to a crawl.
>
> Does anyone know the hidden processes that post.office creates?
>
> I can even do "locate post.office" and several variations of
> this
> from the command line and I get nothing - that is how thoroughly I
> have removed the files. I updated the locate database as well to
> ensure that I was getting the right information. And I deleted
> items
> in the receipts folder.
>
> Please, any help is appreciated.
>
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