[wplug] Cron Daemon Message

[Jonathan S. Billings]

Your shell is probably not reporting the exit code of the script, but 
cron is reporting it when it runs.  If you are running bash, you can 
'set -e' to tell the shell to print the return codes of processes.

jonathan


On Feb 28, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Gentgeen wrote:

> I have tried running /etc/cron.daily/man-db as root from / but got 
> nothing.  Just dumped back to the prompt.
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:23:24 -0500
> "Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
>
>> wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
>>> I'm not sure when it started, It was a while ago -- but once
>>> a day I get the following message from the Cron Daemon:
>>>
>>> [--snip--]
>>> Subject: Cron <root at linuxbox> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron ||
>>> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
>>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:30:40 -0500
>>>
>>> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 2 [--end
>>> snip--]
>>>
>>>
>>> This may sound like a silly question to some of you, but I'll
>>> ask anyway -- What does this mean?  (Running Debian Woody
>>> with 2.4.18 kernel)
>> 	
>> 	Have you looked at / tried to execute /etc/cron.daily/man-db to see
>> what the heck it does?  I'm not a debian user, but this is where I'd 
>> start
>> since it appears to be the "problem" (or is not getting the input it 
>> needs
>> from a precursor).  "return code 2" seems a bit ambiguous, but I am 
>> making
>> the leap of assumption that it's an error.
>>
>> Love,
>> Don
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