[wplug] Cron Daemon Message

[Jonathan S. Billings]

Sorry, the -e option is just wrong.  Whoops.  I'll post the right 
command when I figure out what it is.  (duh)


On Feb 28, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:

> 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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