On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:55:38AM +0000, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-15, 07:59:18 (+0200) skrifaði Waldemar la Tendresse: [...snip...] > > Do you want to do something like check if a package is installed and > if it is then set some alias, then this should work: > > if(dpkg -s pacakgename | grep "Status: install ok installed") > alias='something' > fi
Well thanx, this one is not bad for a few packages, however if you have, let's say 20-30 of these, bash startup is probably too slow (though I must admit, that I didn't try it out yet). > > then just put that into the /etc/profile (I dont know cfengine/puppet > so cant help you with that). Well, if you have more than 2 hosts to manage, then cfengine/puppet are your friends (though puppet is not very mature yet, but it is growing fast, from what I have seen). Cheers.
