Re: [AMaViS-user] redirect or silent output for "amavisd reload"

[Mark M. <Mar...@ij...>]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:19:43 Jo Rhett wrote:
> So I've been putting up with this for a few years, and just recently sat
>  down and tried to figure this out.   I've now tried every possible way of
>  redirecting from the shell, and no matter what I always get the following
>  output to stderr.
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/amavisd reload 2>&1 1>/dev/null
> Daemon [14925] terminated by SIGTERM, waiting for dust to settle...
> becoming a new daemon...
> 
> I haven't dug into the code, but it's clear that amavisd is resetting
>  stderr and writing directly to it.   Why?
> 
> And in particular, it would be nice to have a "--quiet" or another option
>  to just have it return a result code as to whether or not the
>  reload/restart was successful.   For use in sa-update scripts, obviously
>  ;-)

This should do:

  amavisd reload >/dev/null 2>&1


Mark