Shellcommands - howto alter environment variables?
Pieter Thysebaert
I'm using Debian Woody and use Fully Automatic Install to install some test
machines.
I want to install proftpd on some of these machines, so the FAI-cfengine
Shellcommands section contains something like
FTPSERVER::
"DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /usr/bin/apt-get --yes -f install
proftpd"
However, this syntax is not accepted it seems (cfengine nags about wanting a
full path-to-executable at the start of the command line)
How can I work around this to achieve my goal, which is to install proftpd
without going into the debconf configuration dialog ?
Pieter
Adrian Phillips
Pieter> I want to install proftpd on some of these machines, so
Pieter> the FAI-cfengine Shellcommands section contains something
Pieter> like
Pieter> FTPSERVER:: "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
Pieter> /usr/bin/apt-get --yes -f install proftpd"
Pieter> However, this syntax is not accepted it seems (cfengine
Pieter> nags about wanting a full path-to-executable at the start
Pieter> of the command line)
"/bin/sh -c 'ENV=value command'"
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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Thomas Glanzmann
* Pieter Thysebaert <pieter.t...@rug.ac.be> [031010 13:17]:
> I'm using Debian Woody and use Fully Automatic Install to install some test
> machines.
same for us.
> How can I work around this to achieve my goal, which is to install proftpd
> without going into the debconf configuration dialog ?
we're using the attached update shell script and the following statement
to start it via cfagaent:
/usr/bin/dpkg --set-selections < /var/cfengine/inputs/selections
/usr/bin/apt-get update
/usr/bin/yes '' | /usr/bin/apt-get --force-yes dselect-upgrade
/usr/bin/yes '' | /usr/bin/apt-get --force-yes upgrade
/usr/bin/apt-get clean
yes '' | dpkg --configure -a
shellcommands:
"/var/cfengine/inputs/update"
This helps to make debian less chatty:
editfiles:
linux::
{ /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
AppendIfNoSuchLine 'force-confold'
AppendIfNoSuchLine 'force-confdef'
}
(ROOTmephisto) [/var/cfengine/distributed/linux/etc/apt] cat apt.conf
// This file is used in the chroot environment from install_packages
// (called by rcS_fai)
// $Header: /var/cfengine/distributed/etc/apt/RCS/apt.conf,v 1.2 2002/03/30 21:08:05 sithglan Exp $
// Options for apt-get for FAI
APT
{
// Options for apt-get
Get
{
Assume-Yes "true";
Fix-Missing "yes";
Show-Upgraded "yes";
Purge "true"; // really purge ! Also removes config files
List-Cleanup "true";
ReInstall "false";
};
};
DPkg
{
Options {"--abort-after=4711";} // a magic number in cologne
};
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {
"dpkg-preconfigure --apt --frontend=noninteractive";
};
Greetings,
Thomas