Package: base-passwd,exim,fdutils,libc6 I've grepped for "noninteractive" on my system. see man-db for a better examble. if [ $build_db -eq 1 ]; then frontend=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` if [ "$frontend" = noninteractive ]; then # Run in the foreground. In this case, chances are we're being run regards, junichi