On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Burrows <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0700, Chad Woolley > <[email protected]> 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?
No, that's not it - I have nopasswd set in sudoers. All other commands I run via sudo run fine. It is just the mysql server install that hangs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
