On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0700, Chad Woolley <thewoolley...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > When scripting an aptitude install of mysql on ubuntu, how can I avoid > blocking at aptitude's interactive root password prompt?
aptitude doesn't prompt for a root password at the command line. > I tried the following, but it doesn't work on when I run it on a clean > EC2 image: > > http://github.com/thewoolleyman/rails/blob/master/ci/setup_rails_dependencies.rb#L26 > > Maddeningly, it works fine when I immediately do the same thing again. You're becoming root like this: $ run "sudo su -c 'echo \"#{pw_file}\" > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat'" It sounds like you're getting a prompt from sudo? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
