How do I uninstall Plesk from my Free BSD dedicated server?

Answer by: Taylor Giddens, Aplus.Net Technical Support

Exercise extreme caution when uninstalling the standard Plesk installation from FreeBSD®. The whole Plesk directory will be deleted without confirmation. This action is not reversible. Make sure you have anything you want to save placed safely somewhere else before you run the uninstall function, as it will return your server to the state that it was in before Plesk was installed. HTML documents, log files, outstanding email, and mySQL databases will all be deleted.

  
1.      First, log in through telnet and change to super-user with the su - command. If you have local access, log in as root.

  
2.      Run /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/deinstall.sh deinstall. This will remove Plesk 6.0 from      the system.

3.      Delete /etc/psa directory.

  
4.      Delete Plesk users and groups from

·         /etc/ftpchroot

·         /etc/ftpusers

·         /etc/passwd

·         /etc/master.passwd

·         /etc/group

      Plesk system users

·         bind

·         mysql

·         apache

·         psaadm

·         psaftp

·         qmaild

·         qmaill

·         qmailp

·         qmailq

·         qmailr

·         qmails

·         popuser

·         tomcat

·         +all users with group=psacln (ftpusers and webusers)

      Plesk system groups:

·         psaftp

·         qmail

·         popuser

·         psaadm

·         psacln

   5.      Delete Plesk startup scripts located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.

   6.      Delete Plesk services ftp, and smtp from /etc/inetd.conf, restart inetd.

   7.      Delete /etc/sysconfig/named

   8.      Restore link to your sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail

   9.      Delete link /etc/named.conf

  10.      Delete /tmp/.state directory.8