Hi Joey Hess schrieb: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:43:09AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > > > Probably it should be clearly stated in policy that the cron.* > > > scripts may be quiet if no errors are encountered.
> > What do people think of this suggestion (s/may/MUST/)? > > I dislike it. It's possible some package will exist that is _designed_ > to fire off daily status reports by cron. We shouldn't prohibit such > things without reason. I suggested this to be a "should". > Cron jobs seem to be quieted down very nicely when they accidentially > become too verbose, just by user complaints and bug reports. A little paragraph in policy could make maintainers have a look at the logging behaviour of the software they package (it tend's to be ignored since it isn't showing on STDERR). ciao, 2ri -- Use the source...
