Hi Torsten, I just installed another package of slapd. In fact it was the first package installed after I followed your advice to use "echo FSET slapd/dump_database_destdir seen false|debconf-communicate". So I was asked whether I wanted an automatic dump, and I was asked the question about the destination directory. I just pressed enter since the default destination directory is fine for me. Installation aborted since postinst could not backup slapd.conf to directory ''.
Well, I am too tired now to figure out whether this is a result of my manual setting of dump_database_destdir or it is because I accepted with enter and actually there is no default. Anyway, the following simple patch should be correct in both cases, postinst ran smoothly after applying. Thanks, Thomas --- slapd.postinst.orig 2005-05-28 23:07:58.094412590 +0200 +++ slapd.postinst 2005-05-28 23:20:04.867191684 +0200 @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ local dir db_get slapd/dump_database_destdir + if [ -z "$RET" ]; then + RET=/var/backups/slapd-VERSION + fi dir=`echo "$RET"|sed -e "s/VERSION/$OLD_VERSION/"` mkdir -p -m 700 "$dir" echo $dir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]