Re: small 'rmdir' bug on EL3 and EL4?

[Rainer Traut <tr ml gmx de>]

Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> On 04/09/07, Rainer Traut wrote:
> > Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> >
> > > since apparently you want a completely silent rmdir.
> >  From what do you conclude?
>
> Redirection of stdout and stderr to /dev/null. If you wanted error

No I don't do this, never did.
I redirect stdout to /dev/null and stderr to console.
Yes the latter is unneeded in cron because I get stderr anyway in cron's 
mail. This was probably causing the confusion here.

 >> I said:
> > "As I said in my first post, I have cron scripts which should only give
> > output if there is something wrong.
>
> But that is not what option --verbose does. If you don't want the
> extra output for each processed dir, don't add the option. The option
> doesn't give you any other output.
> > But 'rmdir' with -v option always writes to stderr so I always get mails
> > from these scripts."
>
> Then why do you use that option?

Because I want/need it in the scripts.
I want to run these scripts from console without redirection and see 
verbose output. Especially scipts which delete something should show me 
exactly for debugging what they're doing.

Rainer