On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:28:01 Hal Burgiss wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:18:37PM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote:
>> The only problem with rdate for non-realtime apps is that you have
>> to jump through hoops to see if it failed. It _always_ gives an exit
>> code of zero, no matter what errors occur.
>
>I've run into this too, and have used a similar workaround. Just now
>checking the RH7 man page and was surprised to find:
>
>
>HISTORY
> 2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Wrote it (previous incarnation had license prob
> lems, all 200 lines of it).
>
>Just throwing some obvious errors at it, it does return 1 in limiting
>testing. FWIW.
That blurb is in the version that shipped with RH6.2 and I have not found an
error condition that results in a nonzero exit code. How did you do it?
Tony
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