execute shell script in postinstall

[Robinson, Andrew W.]

> From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:phr at doc.ic.ac.uk] 
> 
> 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