Execution of commands in %post

Dan Trainor dan at id-confirm.com
Wed Mar 22 08:05:01 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:41, Dan Trainor wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> It's late.  How about I also provide an example of the kind of command
>> which I'm trying to execute:
>>
>> /path/to/command write /path/to/destination/file 3301 100 $SLSQLUID
>> STRING1 $SQLUSER $SQLPASS 0 3306 127.0.0.1 theDatabase
>>
>> I've tried most every variation of a one-liner which I can think of.
>> Calling the variables ${VARIABLE}, doing `echo ${VARIABLE}`, and so on.
>>   I can't get them to print their values.  I can only get them to print
>> their literal values.
> 
> It would be best to put your commands into a bash script and call this script 
> from %post.  wget it from a web address (no DNS use IP) and then execute it.
> 

Good morning, Jesse -

I completely agree.  However, for these installs, I cannot assume that 
this install will have connectivity to grab such a script.  That's why 
I'd like to do it all from %post in this manner.

Like I said, everything else works, except this "special" line.

Thanks

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