Bug#302689: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#302689: treats non-zero egrep exit status as failure

[maximilian attems]

severity 302689 serious
thanks

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

> Tags: patch
> 
> "debdiff logcheck_1.2.35.dsc logcheck_1.2.36.dsc" shows this among other
> changes:
> 
> -           egrep --text -v -f $clean/$file $TMPDIR/checked | cat \
> -               >> $TMPDIR/checked.1 \
> -                   || error "Could not output to TMPDIR/checked.1 Disk Full?"
> +           (egrep --text -v -f $clean/$file $TMPDIR/checked \
> +               || warn  "Could not process file $file") | cat \
> +               >> $TMPDIR/checked.1 \
> +               || error "Could not output to $TMPDIR/checked.1 Disk Full?"
> 
> However this causes spurious reports looking like this:

urrgs thanks for your report,
pumping up the severity to keep that version out of sarge.
 
thanks Matthew for your patch, will add it to cvs and retest.
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maks