Uninstall unresponsive applejack

Their Read Me says the script is loacted at: /private/var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh, but, as a novice in single user mode, I have no idea where that is in the finder. The finder's Find page and Spotlight were no help loctating it.

/var/root is not indexed by spotlight and I think it's is also kept finder invisible.

To delete it you need to either enable root and log in as root or run as root in terminal (after enabling root) and delete it from there. If you are already running as root in single user mode then you don't need to go through the extra step of enabling root.

With root enabled (and logged in as root) this is how you could do it from the terminal:

rm /var/root/Scripts/applejack.sh

Or if root is enabled you could log into your own account and still do it from the terminal:

su (answer the prompt for the root password, not your admin password, it won't be echoed)

rm /var/root/Scripts/applejack.sh

exit

If you don't want root enabled anymore then you can disable root if you wish.

By the way, I thought applejack 1.6 was supposed to be Snow Leopard compatible.

While I truly appreciate the reply, as I know almost nothing about the unix root architecture of the Apple OS, I'm afraid I don't understand the steps to remove the applejack code. Enabling root mode seems more than a little scary, but the Apple Support page link does describe how to do get in and out of it.

You know you could just as well ignore it. You can't normally see it. It isn't going to hurt anything by remaining installed.

After that, what?

What "what"? Once you log in as root you could do the terminal command I described (see below).

I thought single user mode WAS the root user, and that Terminal also got to the unix root level. I apologize for being at the limit of my understanding, but am eager to learn more about this.

Well then you have nothing to loose by trying that rm command I descibed (again, see below). If you are not at root level the rm will just fail. Nothing changed.

I assume the command: rm/var/root/Scripts/applejack.sh removes the applejack code. Can't that just be typed in on the single user screen, or must root user first be enabled in System Preferences before restarting in single user mode?

Yes, rm is the "remove" unix command. And yes, as I just said above, if single user mode is root level, then try the rm command as I specified it.

rm /var/root/Scripts/applejack.sh

If it works you can forget about enabling root and you're done.

And just in case you didn't catch it, you must have a space between rm and /var

Heh, I saw what he typed too which is why I added the command a second time to my last post.😉

There's no need to enable the root account nor uninstall applejack in single user mode. From your admin account, copy the following command below and paste it into a Terminal window:

sudo /private/var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh uninstall

Enter your admin password at the prompt and press the return key.

Just type the letter y 😉

TO UNINSTALL:

Assuming you installed AppleJack as the default location, you can just copy the following shell script into a Terminal window, and hit return. If you've installed AppleJack at some other location, put that location in the script instead.

sudo rm -f /private/var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh && \

sudo rm -f /usr/share/man/man8/applejack.8 && \

sudo find /usr/share/man -name 'applejack.*.gz' -exec rm {} \; && \

sudo sed -e '/[aA]pple[jJ]ack/d' /private/var/root/.profile > /tmp/profile.$$ && \

sudo rm -f /private/var/root/.profile && \

sudo mv /tmp/profile.$$ /private/var/root/.profile; 


I'm confused by your previous two posts. In your reply to me you said you successfully removed applejack. That was the whole goal here wasn't it? Then in the reply to WZZZ you said his commands didn't work and implied applejack was still there. So they are confusing replies.

As for the 'y' reply. It's an age old (to me anyway) convention for simple command line interfaces to put up a prompt and give the user the expected choices in brackets, parenthesis, braces, whatever. For example:

Do you want to quit now? (y,n)

So it is expecting a y or n as a reply.

As for reinstalling the entire system just to get rid of a single file, that's overkill, and a number of ways have been described to get rid of it, or just to ignore it.

To WZZZ...

Unless root is enabled or sudoers set to allow the root password, not admin passsword, to sudo, I would not expect the sudo rm to work to delete a file out of the root account. Am I wrong about this? I'm not sure because I always have root enabled so I can log in a screw around with that account directly if necessary.

That script came from here. I always thought sudo, superuser do, allowed one to run commands as root, period. So I'm ready to learn more about this from you.

Maybe the Dr. has to enable the root account and try running that script. Then we may know.

Not too long ago I was trying to help someone else uninstall a failed AJ. Never understood why it failed -- it's never happened to me -- or why he had so much trouble uninstalling. He ended up throwing in the towel, prematurely I thought, and just reinstalled.

Maybe I can get some help on this.

EDIT: just realized that page is for AJ 1.4/Tiger version. Maybe that's why the script won't work. Can't get into Terminal right now to see man applejack.But I think the default location and directions to uninstall are the same in the Snow version.