<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Solved!! #!/bin/bash export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline /usr/bin/expect - << ENDMARK > /dev/null spawn dpkg-reconfigure dash send "n" send "\n" interact ENDMARK export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=dialog thank you! --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Eugeneapolinary Ju <eugeneapolinary81@yahoo.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Eugeneapolinary Ju <eugeneapolinary81@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: using expect to dpkg-reconfigure To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical support" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 9:33 AM <div id="yiv1723943483"><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; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top"># sh test.sh hi spawn dpkg-reconfigure -freadline dash # sorry, no If I just type: "dpkg-reconfigure dash" it still on "Yes" by default, it doesn't change to "no" --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Didar Hossain <didar.hossain@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Didar Hossain <didar.hossain@gmail.com> Subject: Re: using expect to dpkg-reconfigure To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 8:24 AM <div id="yiv1159637162"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Eugeneapolinary Ju <<a rel="nofollow">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 </div> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- <div class="plainMail">-- ubuntu-users mailing list <a rel="nofollow">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>