Hi, I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web) packages need to setup a password for the administrator account. If the debconf priority is too high (or the system administrator chose the noninteractive frontend) I have to automatically generate a password because I can't continue without it. Now, what is the standard way to deal with this issue? I've read on debconf-devel that a note could be used for this purpose[1], but I wasn't able to have that password emailed to root or to have the install halted and waiting for a key. I'm clueless... Thanks in advance, [1] Relevant text: note Rather than being a question per se, this datatype indi- cates a note that can be displayed to the user. It should be used only for important notes that the user really should see, since debconf will go to great pains to make sure the user sees it; halting the install for them to press a key, and even mailing the note to them in some cases. It's best to use these only for warning about very serious problems. -- Fabio Tranchitella <kobold@debian.org> .''`. Proud Debian GNU/Linux developer, admin and user. : :' : `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~kobold/ `- _____________________________________________________________________ 1024D/7F961564, fpr 5465 6E69 E559 6466 BF3D 9F01 2BF8 EE2B 7F96 1564
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