stdin is closed during script running.  What if the user is using a
GUI frontend to install the package like GnoRPM?  Or if they are
installing a package remotely via a management service?

Matt

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:46:13PM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to get user input during installation of an rpm. I have a
> simple perl script which works fine by itself, but when run automatically
> during rpm installation, it simply doesnt stop for the user input... it
> just goes directly thru it.
> 
> I just get user input using,
> 
> $answer = <STDIN>;
> 
> which works fine if the script is run manually. But inside the rpm the
> STDIN input is ignored.
> 
> How can i fix that?
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> 
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