On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:48, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> To do so I need the initscript to make a difference if the package is
> called from postinst (don't exist with error status code) or not (exit
> with error status code to allow an admin to script something e.g.).
Don't try to control the exit status with an environment variable.
Let the initscript return a nonzero status. If you need to ignore
the status (because you have "set -e") then append '|| :' to the
line that returns the error status.
$ false || :
$ echo $?
0
--
Thomas
