Cvsup script question

[Marco Gonçalves]

Hi, i did some minor alterations to the script by

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 0 /etc/cvsupfile # Keep quiet except for errors
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > /dev/null     # Hopefully, show only errors
/usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aF
/bin/echo
/bin/echo "Updated ports:"
/usr/local/sbin/portversion | grep "<"      # Show only changed ports

but strangly, at least for me, is that the 2nd line the output is not being redirected to /dev/null and if i execute this script i still get lots of output...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lowell Gilbert 
  To: Charles Howse 
  Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
  Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 4:24 PM
  Subject: Re: Cvsup script question


  "Charles Howse" <chowse at charter.net> writes:

  > Hi,
  > I'm cvsup'ing from a script in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily.
  > Here 'tis:
  > 
  > #!/usr/local/bin/bash
  > Echo
  > Echo "Output of cvsup:"
  > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile
  > Echo
  > Echo "Output of portsdb:"
  > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
  > Echo
  > Echo "Output of portversion:"
  > /usr/local/sbin/portversion
  > 
  > It works, but (1) produces a ton of output, (2) I'm seeing a lot of
  > lines in the output of portsdb that say, "(some port) non-existent,
  > dependency list incomplete".
  > 
  > Are those lines in the output of portsdb coming from STDOUT or STDERR,
  > or are they completely normal?
  > 
  > How about we alter the script as follows to keep the output down a
  > little?#!/usr/local/bin/bash
  > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 0 /etc/cvsupfile # Keep quiet except for
  > errors
  > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > /dev/null     # Hopefully, show only
  > errors
  > Echo
  > Echo "Updated ports:"
  > /usr/local/sbin/portversion | grep "<"      # Show only changed ports
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > Will these changes break anything?

  No.  If in doubt, redirect to files instead of to /dev/null.
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