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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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pkgask — Store Answers to a Request Script

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/pkgask [-d device][-R root-path] -r response
						pkginst...
					

Description

Use the pkgask command to store answers to an interactive package (a user-created file that must be named request). Invoking this command generates a response file that is then used as input at installation time. The use of this response file prevents any interaction from occurring during installation because the file already contains all of the information the package needs.

Note

If the default admin file is too restrictive, you may need to modify it to permit total noninteraction during a package installation. See admin(4) for details.

For example, some packages may have a request script as part of the package ...

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