Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry.
On 30/12/11 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't >> searched further), mail changed its arguments. >> > Apparently -e was a Debian specific addition. Ah, that explains it, thanks. > Cases like this are why when people request that Debian make local > patches that I usually think it is a bad idea. For the time that it > is in Debian it is different here there elsewhere. And in most cases > where the feature is worthwhile and eventually gets added upstream it > often gets added differently. Then we have to go through the > transition just like this. Better to make the feature upstream. Yep, agreed. Or at a bare minimum, make sure it hasn't been already added differently elsewhere. > When I don't want to send mail I simply don't send mail. I guess it > is a little bit more work but I have done it so many times that I > don't even think about it anymore. I save the output to a temporary > file and then check to see if the file is empty before sending it off > in email. Yes, that makes sense. > What are you trying to do? Perhaps there would be a suggestion from > the group. It's a fairly simple and typical wrapper script (for a program that collects info on installed websites, and sends it off to a database), to be called from cron. It needs to send email (other than the actual content for the database) if there are errors. Yes, I can just make the script a bit longer and use a temp file as you say - it only gets called once a day. Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4efe7db4.9010...@walnut.gen.nz
