Hi, the developers' reference says in 6.4:
| Standard input and output may be redirected (e.g. into pipes) for | logging purposes, so don't rely on them being a tty. So far, so good. But is it o.k. if the script itself performs redirections? For example something like the following in postinst: db_get mypackage/someinfo VAR=`process $RET | mangle with $WHATEVER` exec 3>&1 >> $someconffile echo "#added by postinst" echo $VAR exec >&3 Of course in this case, a here-document would be sufficient, but not generally. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
