Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Hi

Joey Hess schrieb:
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:43:09AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> > > Probably it should be clearly stated in policy that the cron.*
> > > scripts may be quiet if no errors are encountered.

> > What do people think of this suggestion (s/may/MUST/)?
> 
> I dislike it. It's possible some package will exist that is _designed_
> to fire off daily status reports by cron. We shouldn't prohibit such
> things without reason.

I suggested this to be a "should".

> Cron jobs seem to be quieted down very nicely when they accidentially
> become too verbose, just by user complaints and bug reports.

A little paragraph in policy could make maintainers have a look
at the logging behaviour of the software they package (it tend's
to be ignored since it isn't showing on STDERR).

ciao, 2ri
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