On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Doug Barton <dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 01/02/2012 15:01, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >> Looking at periodic(8) it says: >> >> Each script is required to exit with one of the following values: >> >> 0 The script has produced nothing notable in its output. The >> <basedir>_show_success variable controls the masking of this out- >> put. >> >> 1 The script has produced some notable information in its output. >> The <basedir>_show_info variable controls the masking of this out- >> put. >> >> 2 The script has produced some warnings due to invalid configuration >> settings. The <basedir>_show_badconfig variable controls the mask- >> ing of this output. >> >> >2 The script has produced output that must not be masked. >> >> >> Could it even be that if setting the correct "*_show_*" config option >> could do the right thing for me already? I have no clue how that "masking" is >> done and in which category "has not produced any output but the heading" >> would fall into and if other things would possibly be hidden as well? > > I'm not sure which problem you're trying to solve. Are you trying to > solve the problem of "scripts that are enabled but don't have any output > other than the header should not output anything at all?" If so, then > yes, then *_show_success="NO" is likely what you're after. > > I assumed from your OP that you were trying to solve a different > problem, but it's starting to seem like I read it wrong. Can you clarify? Looking at the scripts, there are bugs where all of the beforementioned scripts would always be mute (because rc=0 is explicitly set at the bottom), unless _show_success was set to YES. Thanks, -GarrettReceived on Mon Jan 02 2012 - 22:10:46 UTC
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