Re: [Integrit-users] Exit code bug

[Yuri D'E. <wa...@us...>]

In article <f2le4r$6pa$1...@se...>,
 Thorsten Kampe <tho...@th...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Integrit 4 returns the wrong exit code (0) when a file is missing.
> 
> Integrit returns 0 when the file is missing or when not missing
> 
> Integrit returns 1 when the file has changed.
> 
> Obviously it doesn't (or shouldn't matter) whether a file has changed 
> or has completely vanished. From a "file integrity checker" point of 
> view both cases should be "file has changed" scenarios and should 
> return "1".

Can you provide a sample configuration an the steps needed to reproduce 
the problem?

> This makes it impossible to query changes from a batch script via exit 
> codes or I'd have to use the crude hack that was suggested in [1]
> 
> if [ "`wc -l $filename | awk '{ print $1 }'`" -gt 0 ]; then
> 
> Will this be fixed?!

Integrit 4 has clear exit status codes. See the "Exit status" section in 
the info integrit manual. Any difference in behavior are broken and will 
be fixed.