Re: debconf and "tty"
At Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:24:22 +0900 (JST),
Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> After using debconf, a script (mktexlsr) in postinst
> stopped to output anything.
>
> I'm not good at debconf nor shell script but as far as
> I examined, it seemed the line like
>
> tty -s && echo "$progname: Updating $db_file... "
>
> in mktexlsr failed in "tty -s" check under
>
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule || exit
> db_version 2.0
>
> Is there any correct way so that mktexlsr outputs
> useful information again without any problem ?
If you don't need to use debconf further, call db_stop before mktexlsr.
Or redirect output of mktexlsr to file descript 3.
See confmodule(3) for more detail.
Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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