Bug 168075 – net-proxy/squid - /etc/cron.weekly/squid.cron errors if squid is not running

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description edoceo 2007-02-23 00:50:51 UTC]

When squid is not running, i.e. /var/run/squid.pid is not present this cron job exits with a error level 1 status, but no output indicating the error.  Then I get silly emails from cron :(

I'd really like this script to exit error level 0 if it cannot find that file.
I'll attach a patch that works to my desire.

Thanks!

[Comment 1 edoceo 2007-02-23 00:52:09 UTC]

Created attachment 111016 [details, diff]
Patch to squid.cron

This makes it so that this cron job only executes if it can find the squid pid file, otherwise it silently exits

[Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2007-02-23 07:49:48 UTC]

huh? what cron daemon do you use?
My vixie-cron don't send emails unless scripts actually write something to stdout or stderr, regardless of what their return code might be.

[Comment 3 edoceo 2007-02-23 21:21:18 UTC]

I use:

[ebuild   R   ] sys-process/fcron-3.0.2  USE="-debug -doc pam (-selinux)"

The message subject:
fcron <root@server> /bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

The message body:
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/squid.cron exited with return code 1
Job /bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output)

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2007-02-25 20:31:34 UTC]

Fixed in squid-2.6.9-r1. Thanks!