Ubuntu
couchdb package

  1. Bug #387945
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 387945

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 387945] Re: package couchdb failed to purge

Elliot Murphy [2009-08-23 15:54 -0000]:
> I found this page discussing whether or not it is a good idea to delete
> system accounts when purging:
> http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts.

Don't remove system accounts, especially not if you store files owned
by that account.

> However, it seems like the bigger and more serious problem is that
> '/etc/init.d/couchdb stop' does not seem to actually stop any of the
> couchdb processes.

Right.