On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Todd Maurice wrote:
> > Hm, it seems I haven't clearly clarified what I want to do.
> >
> > I'm using preseed file (through "auto url=" option) to install
> > Debian Jessie in a VM.
>
> Sounds good. Many of us do this all of the time. Works.
>
> > I would like to configure preseed in such way that it accomplishes
> > two things.
>
> > 1. It downloads a script from github (we figured out that part)
>
> Good.
>
> > 2. Starts the downloaded script when I log ("debian login") for the
> > first time on the freshly installed system.
>
> The above is conflicting information. The words above. This part:
>
> when I log ("debian login") for the first time
>
> What does that mean to you? Do you mean when you log into the system
> at the login prompt? That is confusingly written but that is how I
> translate it when I read it. If so then that is NOT what late_command
> does. It will NEVER do what you are asking because that is not what
> late_command does.
>
> Previously you wrote:
> no auto run (no matter if I log as root or user)
>
> But late_command runs at installation time not at login time. If you
> are logging in to the system then late_command has already been run
> once before the system was rebooted.
>
> And you wrote:
> It created a file containing the text Hello World. No autorun.
>
> You said it created the file containing the output of your script.
> That confirms that that the late_command WAS RUN successfully at
> INSTALLATION TIME. If it were not then you would not have seen the
> output of the script in the file. You claimed that the output was in
> the file therefore the script *was* autorun.
>
> > I have successfully accomplished 1. (download) but not 2. (autorun).
>
> After carefully reading this entire thread again I believe it is
> automatically running at installation time. It is all working
> correctly. As far as I can read this just isn't what you are wanting
> it to do.
>
> Please say again what you are wanting to do.
>
> Bob
>
What he wants I guess is use the preseed to add the git commands, or a
script or what ever, in the users ~/.bashrc file (assuming the users
default shell is bash) during installation which will then run upon users
login when the freshly installed system reboots.
