You (Brian C. White) wrote: > Package: nis > Version: 1.20-1 > > I having problems with cron reporting the following error should the > NIS server be unavailable. > > yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error > > This is very annoying as I will get mail every minute or two when cron > tries to execute at-run. This is also causing a problem with gnats as > it thinks the mail is a bug report and starts processing it. > > I assume it is NIS doing this since cron works fine without NIS > installed. > > This should be handled more gracefully. A background utility like this > should be sending errors via syslog or something instead of writing to > STDOUT or STDERR.
This is a bug in the library; the library routines print this (they shouldn't ofcourse). Heeemmm can anybody tell me how to redirect a bug report to another package, libc5 in particular? Mike. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
