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Re: sgi 8.2.2: cron job /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 15 11:44:38 1998
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:01:16 EDT."
<199806142201.SAA27166@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:44:32 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It gives errors when it tries to delete anything, because it's
> using rmdir, which will only work on empty directories.
Yeah, our strategy to date has been to let the rmdir commands spew
errors and bitbucket mail to root so no one notices. Only in 8.2 we
give people the opportunity to read their root mail, so now you're
noticing it.
I can submit a patch to redirect the rmdir stderr output to /dev/null,
and I probably will, but that's suboptimal since it could suppress
more serious errors. But it's important not to generate spurious
error output.
