Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:' Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why. But if they complete successfully they should be quiet. Maybe this would work: set

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Karl M. Hegbloom: Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why. Joey I think what we

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-19 Thread Mark Eichin
Q: Is anyone using `autoconf`? I wonder if it's worth learning to use, and what people use it for. (I've barely glanced over the manuals for it, so far.) Most main GNU packages (ie. what's on prep) have switched over to autoconf (even gcc itself probably will, there's an effort underway,

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Kevin == Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q: Is anyone using `autoconf`? I wonder if it's worth learning to use, and what people use it for. (I've barely glanced over the manuals for it, so far.) Kevin Use autoconf

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why. If you've ever administered

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Karl M. Hegbloom: Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why. I think what we need is a more intelligent run-parts, for use with the cron jobs, that

crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why. Every morning, lately, after my cron.daily directory is run, I get this in the mail:

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-18 Thread Kevin Dalley
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q: Is anyone using `autoconf`? I wonder if it's worth learning to use, and what people use it for. (I've barely glanced over the manuals for it, so far.) Use autoconf with automake. It's much easier to use the two in combination. If you feel

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: `The `tar` errors about stripping / are no big deal; I will 2/dev/null them. I don't know why it cannot find /etc/securetty... anyone know? The reason I want the scripts to report is so I can find out which one gives that 'shell-init' error.