[Mailman-Users] mailman_sync --silent

[Ian Eiloart]

--On Friday, October 22, 2004 11:43 am +0100 Richard Barrett 
<r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 22 Oct 2004, at 10:48, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a cron job which syncs a mailman mailing list membership with a
>> text file maintained by a web application.
>>
>> I used mailman_sync --silent in the code, but now mailman_sync
>> complains that it doesn't support --silent. Is this a feature that has
>> been lost in an update?
>>
>
> Neither MM 2.1.4 or 2.1.5 (or previous if I recollect) have a command
> line script called mailman_sync.
>
> MM 2.1.4 or 2.1.5 (and previous if I recollect) have a command line
> script bin/sync_members but it did/does not have a --silent option.
>
> Is mailman_sync a local script.

Oops, *blush*, yes. Its a script that calls sync_members, and I did have it 
using --silent. It worked from March to June 10, then stopped working.
June 10 is the last modified date on sync_members.

>> The problem is that, after removing the --silent option, I'm getting
>> emails every five minutes telling me that mailman_sync had "Nothing to
>> do."!
>>
>
> Redirect output of sync_members to /dev/null on the crontab entry ??

Hmm, yes. Except I want it to report what it does do. I don't want it to 
report that there's nothing to do. I guess I can pipe through "egrep -v 
'^Nothing to do.$'"
Er, that doesn't seem to work, but if I pipe the output of the script 
through there, then that works.


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>> Ian Eiloart
>> Servers Team
>> Sussex University ITS
>>
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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS