Bug#155109: Bug#581612: cron sends e-mails when a job exits nonzero (after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110)

2010-05-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
You want cron to allow a job to fail silently? Although avoiding noise from some existing package cron.d jobs is additional work, having an assertive cron helps people to catch otherwise-invisible problems (Andrew Pimlott in #443615). Andrew? Perhaps you have a specific, convincing scenario

Bug#155109: Bug#581612: cron sends e-mails when a job exits nonzero (after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110)

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/19/2010 03:28 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: You want cron to allow a job to fail silently? The question is not what I want to do, it's what can I /can/ do. Although avoiding noise from some existing package cron.d jobs is additional work, having an assertive cron helps people to catch