How postinst scripts work?

[paja]

Hi,
I am trying to understand how postinst scripts for windows 7 work. I thought that it is necessary to create XX_name.cmd file in postinst.d directory and it will be executed automatically. But nothing happened. Just for test, I have tried to create directories from existing scripts (add line md c:\test) and nothing happened again. In the next step, I have tried to add a task into unattend.xml, also without any result.
My question is: how can I create and run postinst scripts?
Thank you.

Pavel

[d.oertel]

Hi,

did you read the opsi manual (chapter 7.1.8.4. Directory opsi / custom) ?

regards

d.oertel

[paja]

Yes, I did and the only thing I know is that there is no C:\tmp directory is present on my disk and there are also no registry entries. I thought that the scripts are run automatically but they don't or they do not write any log messages

[d.oertel]

Hi,

I thought that it is necessary to create XX_name.cmd file in postinst.d directory and it will be executed automatically.

This is correct.

If nothing happens - we have to debug the problem:
- These files should be in the custom/postinst.d directory
- Are these scripts readable for the unix group pcpatch ?
- There should be a 'postinst.scripts' file in c:\tmp. Is your script listed there ?
- If you want that your scripts logs to the c:\tmp\postinst.log, look like this is done in our scripts.

does this help ?

d.oertel

[paja]

- These files should be in the custom/postinst.d directory

There is 11_do_it.cmd script, which has the only line "md C:\test2"

- Are these scripts readable for the unix group pcpatch ?

Yes, they have the same owners as the other files in /opt - opsiconfd and pcpatch.

- There should be a 'postinst.scripts' file in c:\tmp. Is your script listed there ?
- If you want that your scripts logs to the c:\tmp\postinst.log, look like this is done in our scripts.

There is no c:\tmp directory on the computer after installation.

Thank you for your time.

Pavel

[paja]

It works! There was some error in unattend.xml file and no error was thrown. I have tried to prepare new unattend.xml and now are all the scripts run properly.

Pavel