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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:05:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >
> > > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there
> > > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation...  But I'd be very
> > > interested in Pierre's and Corinna's opinion on this.
> >
> > Igor, what's your reading of the log?
> > We have a chicken and egg problem here. Perhaps mkpasswd works just
> > fine but it was never called because passwd-grp.sh could not be
> > found!
> > [snip]
> Ah, I didn't realize that the file could be renamed but not executed
> (which is exactly what happened).
>
> As for the log, it shows that none of the postinstall scripts were
> executed (including passwd-grp.sh).
>         Igor

Note that I didn't say something was wrong with mkpasswd, just with its
invocation...

How could we handle the case when the default mode on the files doesn't
allow their execution by the shell?
	Igor
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