Bug#3984: NIS writes error message to STDERR

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Brian C. White) wrote:
> Package: nis
> Version: 1.20-1
> 
> I having problems with cron reporting the following error should the
> NIS server be unavailable.
> 
> 	yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error
> 
> This is very annoying as I will get mail every minute or two when cron
> tries to execute at-run.  This is also causing a problem with gnats as
> it thinks the mail is a bug report and starts processing it.
> 
> I assume it is NIS doing this since cron works fine without NIS
> installed.
> 
> This should be handled more gracefully.  A background utility like this
> should be sending errors via syslog or something instead of writing to
> STDOUT or STDERR.

This is a bug in the library; the library routines print this (they
shouldn't ofcourse). Heeemmm can anybody tell me how to redirect
a bug report to another package, libc5 in particular?

Mike.
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