Scripsit "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>What I don't understand is that the maintainer script blithely went on >>doing its thing after addgroup failed the first time. The postinst >>does have an -e flag -- what is happening here? > Umm... does addgroup and/or adduser fail to exit nonzero on these > errors? Not on my box: # addgroup --system _blah addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the name_regex configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex. # echo $? 1 # adduser --system _blah adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the name_regex configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure name_regex. # echo $? 1 # -- Henning Makholm "Jeg kunne ikke undgå at bemærke at han gik på hænder."
