Originally Posted by fred123

two files in debian control

postinst & postrm

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#update sudoers

update-sudoers

create the following file

etc/sudoers.d/healthcheck.sudoers

Code:

user ALL = NOPASSWD: /<path>/command

put all the commands you need to run as root.

this will allow commands to be run as root when your package is installed, and stopped when package is removed.