On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:10:33AM -0500, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: > /dev/null. So that is the first question. how can I take output from > the command passed to ReturnsZero and send it to /dev/null? Create a small script that runs the getent and redirects the result to /dev/null, but preserves the return code. Call that from ReturnsZero.
> The second question is: Does someone know of an easier way of testing > for the existence of a user that wouldn't require a call to getent? > Just wondering if there is a better solution out there. Perhaps testing for a home directory? getent is probably the most reliable, if you can always assume it is present. -Jason Martin -- I'd love to go out with you, but I have to floss my cat. This message is PGP/MIME signed.
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