install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)

[John Meing]

Mike,

Thanks alot for your suggestion, I'll try to put these lines to a
shell script and try to make install.cfg run them. I'll post results
soon.

John Meing

On Apr 8, 2005 5:55 PM, wizlayer <wizlayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
> > Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
> > (without the rc.conf lines)
> >
> > command="passwd root" system
> >
> > which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
> > with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when
> > i put it in install.cfg :((
> >
> > John Meing
> >
> [snip]
> > > Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax...  Going
> > > back to
> > >
> > > your original post:
> > > > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf"
> > > > system
> > >
> > > would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what
> > > I'm assuming you're getting?)
> > >
> > > Mike
> 
> hmmm...  I googled this list and found the following link (which
> may wrap in email):
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031620.html
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps this function through sysinstall isn't
> completely implemented yet.... or....  I've just noticed there's
> no mention of a shell (hmmmm)...
> 
> Maybe something like:
> 
> # /stand/sysinstall command="sh passwd root" system
> 
> Even though it doesn't seem to work from the command line, I
> wonder if the problem isn't something along these lines?  Perhaps
> putting these commands into a script and then having install.cfg
> run the script instead would clear it up.
> 
> (I'm shooting in the dark here, I know...  But now I'm curious...)
> 
> Mike
>