Nathan E Norman writes: > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
>> can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and >> postinstall scripts when installing packages ? > > /var/lib/dpkg/info iirc That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program which executes scripts from within /var. atd, for example does the equivalent of ``/bin/sh <filename'' for certain files in /var (which means noexec won't have any effect). There may be others. ttfn/rjk