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

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:34AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> * Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> [010220 07:29]:
> > 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."
> 
> Why specifically root? I could imagine situations where a cron script
> may be setup to mail to some other user and yet still want to be
> installed through the Debian system.
> 
> I'd like to suggest deleting "to root".

Ah, so we need to get the wording better.  How about the following:

   cron.* scripts should not produce output on stdout.  An exception
   may be made if the intention of the script is to mail a status
   report to root.

This is because stdout gets mailed to root by cron.

   Julian

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