Dan Trainor wrote: > I guess whatever I do, it will involve %post, since I've been told time > and time again that RPM, by design (and otherwise I would agree with > this, if not for this particular project) was designed to be a > completely automated process, requiring no outside input other than the > command issued to actually install the RPM. Have you considered including a configuration script in your package and calling that configuration script after rpm has installed it? Then you are back in normal space and everything should be fine. #!/bin/sh rpm -Uvh mypackage.rpm exec /usr/sbin/reconfigure-mypackage Bob