<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Eugeneapolinary Ju <<a href="mailto:eugeneapolinary81@yahoo.com">eugeneapolinary81@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> I tried to use expect, just to give "dpkg-reconfigure dash" a "no" answer. I'm here right now: ---------------------------------------- # cat test.sh #!/bin/bash echo "hi" /usr/bin/expect - << EndMark spawn dpkg-reconfigure dash expect "*" send "no" EndMark exit 0 echo "done" </td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div> Does changing to - spawn dpkg-reconfigure -freadline dash ... help? Regards, Didar