> From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:phr@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, keanboon wrote: > > >I want to execute a shell script in postinstall. Where > should i put my > >shell script? How can i execute it? > > Hard disk, optical disk, network... e.g. : > > %post > wget http://server.example.com/script.sh > sh script.sh Just to add a couple of points from my own experience (yes, the hard way :). - If you execute the script directly, './script' instead of 'sh script.sh', be sure to make it executable. Phil's method would have saved me some grief. - Until you reboot, you have the limited installation environment and tool set. For example, sed is available, but awk is not. Andrew Robinson
