[lopsa-discuss] how to preseed dpkg answers

2010-04-23 Thread david
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 o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] how to preseed dpkg answers

2010-04-23 Thread Ben Poliakoff
* 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 hundre

Re: [lopsa-discuss] how to preseed dpkg answers

2010-04-23 Thread david
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Ben Poliakoff wrote: > * 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 a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] how to preseed dpkg answers

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Ellison
>From a MySQL setup script: echo "mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server/root_password password $1" | debconf-set-selections echo "mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server/root_password_again password $1" | debconf-set-selections apt-get -y install mysql-server mysql-client HTH, Justin On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:14