On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 5:31:07 PM, Dave wrote:
> On 2014-10-08 15:23, Duane Hill wrote:
>> No. && is a way of chaining commands together. Your cron says run
>> sa-update and then restart spamd. In other words, when sa-update
>> finishes running, regardless if there was an update applied or not,
>> restart spamd.
> I thought that ; would chain commands together and run both in sequence
> regardless of the results, whereas && is a conditional for if the
> previous command succeeded and || was a conditional for if the previous
> command failed?
> At least in bash...
I stand corrected. I found this:
&& will automatically run the command on the right, as long as the
command on the left executes without an error return code.
Sorry for the noise.
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Duane Hill
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