Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:15:09AM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote:
> 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".
Good. How about something like "cron.* scripts should not produce any
non-error output in general. An exception may be made if the
intention of the script is to mail a status report to root."
Julian
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