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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am building some VM's using scripts and want to run "emerge --config |
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> mariadb" automaticly. However it asks for a new root password (entered |
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> twice) as part of the process - I was going to make an expect script to |
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> enter the password for me ... but I thought someone might know a better way? |
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You might try appending <<< "password\npassword" to the script |
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invocation - that puts "password\npassword" into stdin. |
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It doesn't always work, and it won't work if you need some kind of |
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interactivity, or a process clears input before prompting, etc. Then |
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you need something like expect. |
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Rich |
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