(imported topic written by nicoya91)
I need to deploy an RPM to some Linux systems. Unfortunately, it’s interactive, and doesn’t have a silent install option. I may have a workaround, but this made me wonder - is it possible to interact with shell prompts via BigFix action scripts on *nix systems? I’ve reviewed the inspector guide for Linux and the relevance and action documents, haven’t seen anything so far.
(imported comment written by Lee Wei)
Hi Nicoya,
What is your workaround? Using input redirection with < to redirect from a file?
I automate FTP often with:
$ ftp < response.txt
If you have a way to do it, the same command can be automated from the Action Script.
Lee Wei
(imported comment written by nicoya91)
Unfortunately because of the way the installer did the prompting we were unable to do a simply file redirection as with your FTP example. Ultimately we had to go to the vendor to get a completely silent install method - once we had that, deployment via BigFix was a snap.
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Search google for the utility “expect” http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/expect.cfm
I use it to prompt for nodename and passowrd after installing Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) which requires an authentication of the nodename by running “dsmc q sess”