This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said: > On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said: > >> I've put "adduser adduser/homedir-permission boolean false" in > >preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains "DIR_MODE=0755". > >> The preseed entry appears to be ignored. > > > >I don't know the fields for a preseed entry, I'm afraid, so can you tell > >me what the first one represents? Package? Title? Something else? > > According to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html > the format is "<owner> <question name> <question type> <value>".
Oh, cool. I didn't know about that manual. Thanks. > >I'm guessing at package, but I want to be sure. I don't really see how > >this happened, looking over the maintainer scripts, so can you help > >debug it? > > Sure. What can I do? debconf-show adduser is a start. I expect it to just answer * adduser/homedir-permission: true but I'd like to be sure. If it doesn't then there is a wierd bug that I can't spot in the postinst. If it does, then can you rerun the installer, but set -x the adduser scripts and send the resulting output? Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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