# Cannot cleanup the deviceauth database
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** mender-server
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877 "2019-07-31T15:11:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Ks89](https://hub.mender.io/u/Ks89)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/1 "2019-07-31T15:11:39Z")
Hi,
I’m trying to upgrade from mender server 1.7.1 to 2.0.1 using the official 2.0 tutorial on mender website.
I created backups using the `../migration/dump-db` script and with `docker run -it --rm......` command.
Next, the tutorial says that I should cleanup the deviceauth db running this command:
```auto
docker-compose exec mender-device-auth /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup
```
but if I try to run it on my server (1.7.1 clean installation and up and running perfectly) it returns an error:
```auto
ERROR: No container found for mender-device-auth_1
```
Why? Am I doing something wrong?
thanks
---
### Author:  [@ckelloug2](https://hub.mender.io/u/ckelloug2)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/2 "2019-07-31T18:15:03Z")
I just had that problem. I couldn’t get the command to work with docker-compose but it did work with just docker but I had to look up the full name of the container with docker ps. I don’t know if the following is absolutely correct but it did work on my system:
```auto
docker exec menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1 /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup
```
---
### Author:  [@Ks89](https://hub.mender.io/u/Ks89)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/3 "2019-08-01T07:03:27Z")
Yes, it worked, thanks.
To the mender developers: which is the right way to do this? Is this an error in the documentation?
---
### Author:  [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/4 "2019-08-01T07:10:27Z")
Odd, considering the docker documentation: [https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/exec/](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/exec/), states that docker-compose exec is an alias for docker exec. Are you sure you did not misspell the container name the first time around?
---
### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 7:14am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/5 "2019-08-01T07:14:32Z")
I assume the container name was the problem as well, looking at it you initially tried running,
```auto
docker-compose exec mender-device-auth /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup
```
Which is what is in our docs.
And what worked was,
```auto
docker exec menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1 /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup
```
And I assume that running the following would have also worked,
```auto
docker-compose exec menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1 /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup
```
Unclear to me how stable the naming is, but probably a good idea to update docs with a note at least that you might need to lookup the name
---
### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/6 "2019-08-01T07:24:37Z")
Created [PR](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-docs/pull/731) to update the name in docs.
---
### Author:  [@Ks89](https://hub.mender.io/u/Ks89)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/cannot-cleanup-the-deviceauth-database/877/7 "2019-08-01T08:29:22Z")
If i run `docker-compose exec menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1 /usr/bin/deviceauth maintenance --decommissioning-cleanup`
i get this error:
```auto
ERROR: No such service: menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1
```
How can I list docker-compose services, because if I run ‘docker-compose ps’ it returns an empty result.
the result of `./run ps` is:
```auto
Name Command State Ports
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
menderproduction_mender-api-gateway_1 /entrypoint.sh Up 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp
menderproduction_mender-conductor_1 /srv/start_conductor.sh Up 8080/tcp, 8090/tcp
menderproduction_mender-deployments_1 /entrypoint.sh --config /e ... Up 8080/tcp
menderproduction_mender-device-auth_1 /usr/bin/deviceauth --conf ... Up 8080/tcp
menderproduction_mender-elasticsearch_1 /docker-entrypoint.sh elas ... Up 9200/tcp, 9300/tcp
menderproduction_mender-gui_1 /entrypoint.sh Up 80/tcp
menderproduction_mender-inventory_1 /usr/bin/inventory --confi ... Up 8080/tcp
menderproduction_mender-mongo_1 docker-entrypoint.sh mongod Up 27017/tcp
menderproduction_mender-redis_1 /redis/entrypoint.sh Up 6379/tcp
menderproduction_mender-useradm_1 /usr/bin/useradm --config ... Up 8080/tcp
menderproduction_minio_1 /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint ... Up (healthy) 9000/tcp
menderproduction_storage-proxy_1 /usr/local/openresty/bin/o ... Up 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp
```