LKBEN11085: How is a debconf package configured under debian
Symptom
You have a running system and want to know how a certain package is configured with debconf
Cause
This is interesting for setting up another system
Solution
You can use the debconf-show command followed by the packagename e.g.
debconf-show dhcp3-server
This will show the configuration done with debconf. This command has to be run as root otherwise you will get an access error.
Here we show the x11-common configuration:
debconf-show x11-common
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: 0
x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
x11-common/upgrade_issues:
Setting with a star in the front, here missing, are set. Others are default.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.