MeshAgent uninstall does NOT uninstall

[DaanSelen]

Key details:

Everything is updated to the lastest version, Debian Linux with GNOME, running a newer kernel. And MeshCentral 1.1.43.

When I send an uninstall command to the Linux machine, it does NOT uninstall, it instead just kills the service. I can simply do a service meshagent start and its back... no uninstalling happenend. The directory and everything is also still there.

I propose a chain of command that have to be send to the agent but with the killing in mind, so to disown the process.

[si458]

yep already aware of this i was moving my machines from one server to another over the weekend and every time i used the uninstall from the web ui, it stopped the service but never actually removed it i think it just needs to run the -fulluninstall command to fix the issue 👍

[DaanSelen]

Have you thought about the fact that the MeshAgent process is running its own uninstall? Will it not kill its own uninstall once it kills everything?

xy problem I mean.

[si458]

i dont know ill have to look into it as the code for the uninstall is actually a JS module built into the agent so its the meshagent repo i need to look into

[DaanSelen]

I think yes:

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshAgent/blob/master/modules/agent-installer.js

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[uhofemeier]

I think yes:

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshAgent/blob/master/modules/agent-installer.js

Yep. All it does right now is a process.exit(); In case of my distro there's still the systemd service, which didn't get disabled. Hence after the next reboot the service is up again :)