On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Today I came across sysexits.h, which defines a standard list of exit
> status codes.  It seems to have come from sendmail, but BSD includes a
> sysexits(3) man page and BSD's style(9) man page encourages people to
> use these codes.  Unfortunately, I've done a few web searches, but I
> can't find much discussion of the issue.  Does anyone actually use the
> codes from sysexits.h, or is it just a waste of time to worry about?
>
>
I use it for custom Nagios plug-in's to handle events.

-Wil



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