Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:50:06PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: <...> > > Question 1: > > > > Where should message go? stdout or stderr? As I inhereted, there seems > > to be no consistency. > > * debug message when turned on. > > * error message from commands > > * error mesage from script > > stderr I guess. What your opinion about it?
as I checked cron manpage, this should be good since it is *any* output. | cron ... When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the | crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environ‐ ment variable in the | crontab, if such exists). The children copies of cron running these processes | have their name coerced to uppercase, as will be seen in the syslog and ps | output. > > Question 2: > > We'd need to support backward compatibility but it doesn't need to be > done quietly. We might output a warning to let user to know that he > needs to change his/her configuration for the new variables and at > Lenny+2 we can drop it. OK. > > * Switch variable names but support old ones for compatibility. That is easy. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
