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[Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Am 20.04.2015 um 16:10 schrieb AskMonty KB:
>> I've been using MariaDB on my server. It seemed to be hacked. I couldn't restart mariadb, and I deleted it with package manager yum. However, after reinstalling that I still experienced some problems (they didn't disappear).
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>> There is an opinion
>> http://superuser.com/a/778269/387511
>> that some files such as databases are not removed during MariaDB uninstall. Is it true, and what should I take care of when uninstalling MariaDB?
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>> Thank you. I've used site search but couldn't find an answer in the official documentation. I suggest adding this to the part about installation of MariaDB
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> uninstall *never ever* removes runtime data
> for no application, not only mysql / mariadb
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> the package manager *must not* touch /var/lib/ at uninstall or update
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