On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:34AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> * Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010220 07:29]:
> > Good. How about something like "cron.* scripts should not produce any
> > non-error output in general. An exception may be made if the
> > intention of the script is to mail a status report to root."
>
> Why specifically root? I could imagine situations where a cron script
> may be setup to mail to some other user and yet still want to be
> installed through the Debian system.
>
> I'd like to suggest deleting "to root".
Ah, so we need to get the wording better. How about the following:
cron.* scripts should not produce output on stdout. An exception
may be made if the intention of the script is to mail a status
report to root.
This is because stdout gets mailed to root by cron.
Julian
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