afterwards the directory "/root/ispconfig" was empty and ./uninstall cannot be executed again. furthermore my lamp-server's apache2 seems completely broken and cannot be started anymore: my standarduser has been deleted too instead ISPConfig user's only. had expected only ISPConfig user's will be removed. [according to this thread I may give ISPConfig a second chance by setting up my server on Debian-3.1_r3 and installing ISPConfig again]
1) The ISPConfig unindstall script never deletes users. 2) You get the error messages because you are in a non existant directory. execute the command to get to a directory that definetly exists: cd /
@1) true. users are still there but temporarily they did not show up @2) /root definitely exists and therein the ispconfig folder resided because of the missing ./setup script, that deleted the ispconfig folder, uninstall cannot run again. apache2 is broken, definitely: switched the backupfiles in /etc/apache2/ back the ones before installing ispconfig and tried to start apache2 again. did not come up. [this all is not a huge problem. the server is nonproductive and for evaluating and testing purposes only.] thank you for your support!
apache2 and ISPConfig oh, forgot to post this: already let run a new setup of ISPConfig and afterwards apache2 started. thank you for your answer(s)! (btw.: there is another issue i do not understand concerning apache2 and ISPConfig but will start a new thread in order not to run out of topic.)