periodic emails

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 15:01, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> Looking at periodic(8) it says:
>>
>>      Each script is required to exit with one of the following values:
>>
>>      0     The script has produced nothing notable in its output.  The
>>            <basedir>_show_success variable controls the masking of this out-
>>            put.
>>
>>      1     The script has produced some notable information in its output.
>>            The <basedir>_show_info variable controls the masking of this out-
>>            put.
>>
>>      2     The script has produced some warnings due to invalid configuration
>>            settings.  The <basedir>_show_badconfig variable controls the mask-
>>            ing of this output.
>>
>>      >2    The script has produced output that must not be masked.
>>
>>
>> Could it even be that if setting the correct "*_show_*" config option
>> could do the right thing for me already?  I have no clue how that "masking" is
>> done and in which category "has not produced any output but the heading"
>> would fall into and if other things would possibly be hidden as well?
>
> I'm not sure which problem you're trying to solve. Are you trying to
> solve the problem of "scripts that are enabled but don't have any output
> other than the header should not output anything at all?"  If so, then
> yes, then *_show_success="NO" is likely what you're after.
>
> I assumed from your OP that you were trying to solve a different
> problem, but it's starting to seem like I read it wrong. Can you clarify?

    Looking at the scripts, there are bugs where all of the
beforementioned scripts would always be mute (because rc=0 is
explicitly set at the bottom), unless _show_success was set to YES.
Thanks,
-Garrett