the cron script redirects stderr to /dev/null, so the sysadmin doesn't
get to see any error messages from apt-cacher-cleanup.pl.
This is the tail of running the cleanup script with strace:
stat64("/var/cache/apt-cacher/temp/dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
write(2, "Found empty index file dists_lenn"..., 201Found empty index file
dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz. Delete this manually or use
--force if the repository is no longer interesting.
Exiting to prevent deletion of cache contents.
) = 201
close(5) = 0
unlink("/var/tmp/BDB14396") = 0
munmap(0xb7a97000, 159744) = 0
close(3) = 0
exit_group(25) = ?
and sure enough, line 643 of apt-cacher-cleanup.pl has die() with that
error message.
I guess not hiding these messages from the admin would be a good start.
John
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