#!/bin/sh set -e . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <new ip address>" echo "NOTE: You have to be root!" exit 1 fi # Substitute in the values from the debconf db. # There are obvious optimizations possible here. db_get dtc/conf_ipaddr FOO="$RET" echo "Changing $FOO to $1" db_set dtc/conf_ipaddr $1