Uninstaltion Option.

Let's go back to your original suggestion:

Id like to be able to uninstall DirectAdmin if there are any issues like MySQL not working or anything else. Or if you have issues during installation.
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If you have an issue with MySQL then you need to reinstall MySQL not DirectAdmin. The is true of other individual pieces of software, apache, bind, exim just to name a few.

Later you said:
The uninstall would remove all things installed
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Then that would make your server virtually unusable. The only things left would be the base install of the OS and the data.

If you really want to keep your data and reinstall DirectAdmin then the best thing to do is to use the backup feature in DA and format and reinstall everything fresh. That is the best scenario if you don't have the experience to figure out what the real problem is.

Optionally you could back up the data and then reinstall DA, without uninstalling. This will wipe out the current DA settings and you will have to restore from the backups you made.

The feature for which you are asking, uninstall DA and everything it installs, is similar to wanting the OS to be uninstalled but leave the data. Both are drastic last resort measures.

Simply stating reformat shows an inexperienced user.
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The same is true of wanting to uninstall and reinstall DA.

Apparently smtalk was able to fix the real problem without taking any of these drastic measures. I believe that was your real goal. And that is the mark of an experienced user.

The only time you have to reinstall a piece of software is if something really got screwed up. Maybe something did. And if something happened to DA itself maybe the feature we should be asking for is the ability to replace the DA system files with affecting the users data within DA. We may already have that, I don't know.

I am just stating the facts. If I am wrong then somebody more experienced can state what the facts are.

What do I know. I only joined in March 2005 and was a server admin for 6 years before that.
 
First of all, my suggestion was pertaining to everything installed by DirectAdmin not the entire operating system this much was clear in my original posts.

DirectAdmin, does infact install MySQL, and I would like to keep the version of MySQL that is installed as I do not know what options DirectAdmin performs on the MySQL build.

He got my DirectAdmin working, but the functionality of it is still limited I cannot use some of the functions. And I think me constantly trying to reinstall DA was the cause of this. I also suspect that DA hasn't been properly tested on the latest Ubuntu. It says it is supported, and as such I had issues after it had installed OpenSSL not creating the valid symbolic links to the libssl and libcrypto libraries. I got around that, by creating them myself.

On previous system administration experience the symbolic link issues didn't exist. So either something is wrong with the way DirectAdmin does things, or something else.
 
Just let me know if you have more problems - I'll fix all of them for free too.
 
First of all, my suggestion was pertaining to everything installed by DirectAdmin not the entire operating system this much was clear in my original posts.
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I know. And I am telling you that there is not much difference. When installing DA you are supposed to start with a clean base OS. If you were uninstall DA and everything it install you would be left with a clean base OS. You can't do much with a base OS. If you did not start with a clean base OS then maybe that is the source of your problems.

DirectAdmin, does in fact install MySQL
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Yes we know.

and I would like to keep the version of MySQL that is installed
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Then reinstall MySQL. You don't have to do anything with DA to do that. I don't know which version of Ubuntu you have but here are the file for Debian 4 http://files.directadmin.com/services/debian_4.0/ Just download and install the mysql files.
 
floyd said:
I know. And I am telling you that there is not much difference. When installing DA you are supposed to start with a clean base OS. If you were uninstall DA and everything it install you would be left with a clean base OS. You can't do much with a base OS. If you did not start with a clean base OS then maybe that is the source of your problems.
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Then one shouldn't expect to have such issues with a Fresh clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition.

smtalk, thank you for all your assistance. I really do appreciate it.
 
I talked to John. There should be no problems with it, you are using Fedora 7 license on your Ubuntu server, that's the problem.
 
smtalk said:
I talked to John. There should be no problems with it, you are using Fedora 7 license on your Ubuntu server, that's the problem.
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Thank you so much. I am talking to the person who has physical access.
 
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