reassign 344139 netbase severity 344139 minor thanks On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:16:17PM +0100, Eneko Lacunza wrote: > Package: samba > Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 > Severity: normal
> I have a cronjob that does "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" hourly. I have
> just sarge and security sources.
> I receive the following errors from cron daemon:
> --- cron message ---
> Couldn't reopen stdin(/dev/tty): No such device or address at
> /usr/sbin/update-inetd line 29.
> dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swat:
> swat depends on samba (= 3.0.14a-3sarge1); however:
> Package samba is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing swat (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> samba
> swat
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up samba (3.0.14a-3sarge1) ...
> --- cron message end ---
> I think that the missordering is because of stdout/stderr output.
Reassigning to netbase, since that's the package that provides update-inetd.
However, Debian policy has this to say about /dev/tty:
6.3. Controlling terminal for maintainer scripts
------------------------------------------------
The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run with a controlling
terminal and can interact with the user. If they need to prompt for
passwords, do full-screen interaction or something similar you should
do these things to and from /dev/tty', since `dpkg' will at some
point redirect scripts' standard input and output so that it can log
the installation process. Likewise, because these scripts may be
executed with standard output redirected into a pipe for logging
purposes, Perl scripts should set unbuffered output by setting $|=1'
so that the output is printed immediately rather than being buffered.
Each script should return a zero exit status for success, or a nonzero
one for failure.
For this and many *other* reasons, I don't advise running "apt-get upgrade"
from cron.
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