Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 985417
spacewalk-splice-tool is not quiet during successful cron runs
Last modified: 2013-10-01 07:12:00 EDT
Description of problem: (from rwj@redhat.com) >> The output from this cron job, which runs every 10 minutes spits out its >> info to standard out. Cron's default behavior is to mail standard out to >> the user who the cron job is invoked as; eventually leading to >> /var/spool/mail/splice becoming large. We should probably redirect this >> to a logfile or /dev/null unless it actually *is* an error. (No news is >> good news) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spacewalk-splice-tool-0.25-1 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. allow cron to execute sst Actual results: output that fills /var/spool/mail/splice Expected results: no output, unless there was an error
85a34f2 splice-common 0.141+
SNAP0 contains these bug fixes. Moving to ON_QA.
Verified with spacewalk-splice-tool-0.40-1.el6sam: # sudo -u splice /usr/bin/spacewalk-splice-checkin --spacewalk-sync # echo $? 0 # sudo -u splice /usr/bin/spacewalk-splice-checkin --splice-sync # echo $? 0
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013-1390.html