On Apr 12, "J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: >I'd rather have an indirection inbetween, to allow the local sysadmin to do >something different, like putting the message(s) in the sysvnews spool. What about dpkg exporting some shell functions to the scripts? Different functions could be exported for different targets. -- ciao, Marco