On 05/19/2010 12:03 AM, Justin T Pryzby wrote:
> clone 581612 -1
> reassign -1 php4
> retitle -1 php4: update test avoiding nonzero exit status when
removed-but-not-purged
> thanks
> 
>> If it is desired behavior that cron now sends out email if the job
exit's with 
>> status 1, it is strange that I now get a lot of mail from system cron
jobs....
> Those packages should be considered buggy with the new cron.
> 
> That does redirect both std{out,err} to /dev/null.  However, killall
> exists nonzero when it doesn't kill anything.  Cron (the new version)
> tries harder to make failures more obvious.

I think our mails triggered a race condition ;-) 

I have to admit the change was unintended, which is why I reverted it.


Christian





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