On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Chris Purves wrote:
I'm running sa-update from a bash script in /etc/cron.hourly but I keep
getting the following every time the script runs:
run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/sa-update exited with return code 1
I believe this is because sa-update only returns error code 0 when something
has been updated so that you can append && restart spamd command.
The documentation says 1 means it successfully checked,
but there was no new data. 0 means it found new data and
successfully downloaded it. Since 1 is an OK exit code that
doesn't present a problem, you could do this:
sa-update || true
"true" is a program that exits with a code of 0.
Then again, presumably /etc/cron.hourly/sa-update is a script,
not a symlink to /usr/bin/sa-update or something, so you could
just add "exit 0" as the last line of the script. If you just
have sa-update in it alone, the script will exit with the code
that sa-update exits with.
If you want to get really fancy and ignore 1 but not
ignore other non-zero exit codes, you can use this as your
/etc/cron.hourly/sa-update script:
#! /bin/sh
# run and immediately capture exit code
sa-update
rc=$?
case "$rc" in
0|1)
rc=0
;;
esac
exit "$rc"
Hope that helps.
- Logan
