On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Ben Poliakoff wrote: > * da...@lang.hm <da...@lang.hm> [100423 16:46]: >> hopefully this is a quick answer fro someone >> >> I am scripting a upgrade on a debian derived system and one particular >> package insists on prompting me for infomation. I don't want to have to >> have someone sit and tell it to shutup on each of a couple hundred >> systems. >> >> I know there is a preseeding option for this, but what I'm finding from a >> google search is horrible overkill (talking about requireing an initrd, >> etc. I'm not rebuilding the machine, just scripting one dpkg -i command) >> >> anyone have a quick pointer they can send me? >> > > Setting the environment variable DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive will > prevent dpkg from being interactive. > > If you're comfortable with just sticking with your old configs you can > also add this line to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg: > > force-confold > > My cfengine invocations of dpkg run that way.
I've done force-confold, which eliminates some of the prompts, the one remaining one is mdadm whhich wants me to tell it what drives it needs to scan on boot, and if it should auto-start. the default appears to be 'all' and 'yes', when what I want is 'none' and 'no' David Lang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
