On 01/12/2014 09:48, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 01.12.2014 um 00:22 schrieb Noel Butler: > >> huh? who doesnt null out cron these days and allow for >> in-individual-cron-file error reporting > > everybody who want to face warnings before the get fatal > > frankly every part of our applications designed to run also in cronjob is > supposed to not output any single byte under normal conditions and so every > output resulting in a cronmail is a "fix that now" issue If the individual jobs are written correct, they too can output pre-fatal errors, I get where you are coming from though, for some it might just be easier to allow cron to report it, even then one could then still null out std output, but not std error, some things I like to get errors about, some things I want programmers to get notifications of that I don't want, others, I don't care too much for at all, its worked well for me for two decades but I know my approach is not for everyone.