On Monday 10 July 2006 17:31, Geoffroy VALLEE wrote: > Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 05:58, Erich Focht a écrit : > > Didn't see that. And the check was for the return code, not the output. > > The command was: > > "dpkg --status $pkgname >/dev/null 2>&1" > > which means we discard all the output! > > 2>&1 redirects stderr right? so you check errors and dpkg does not return > errors on Sarge if the packages is not installed.
It means: redirect stdout to /dev/null and redirect stderr to th esame place as stdout. So only return codes are checked. Not stdout or stderr. Looks like I need to check this myself on sarge, I just can't believe this is broken. Indeed, I tested on ubuntu 5.10. Regards, Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
