Re: [Aide-devel] [Debian minor issue #143495] Bug#143495: aide: should output errors on stderr

[Marc H. <mh+...@zu...>]

Version: 0.10-6.1

Hi Richard,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:36:04PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> I did not find the string "no errors" in the current source code. So
> aide will not report that there are no errors, even if that statement
> would be true.

Yes, that "no errors" comes from our cron job and is printed if aide
exited with a zero exit code _AND_ didn't have any stderr output.

The real issue is that aide exists with a zero exit code even if the
database was corrupted, and that the error message indicating database
corruption is printed to stdout instead of stderr, which makes it
pretty hard to detect from the calling script whether there has been a
serious problem with aide itself.

Current aide seems to correctly issue a non-zero exit code, so this
bug is kind of fixed in aide 0.10.

Do you plan to better seperate stdout and stderr in the future?

Greetings
Marc

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