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FS#10622 - abs: rsync too verbose

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Erwin Van de Velde (evdvelde) - Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 10:27 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 14:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Travis Willard (Cerebral)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
abs prints loads of useless information since the rsync command gets the verbosity option (-v). Disabling this makes abs a lot faster and keeps my cron mails cleaner :)

Additional info:
* package version(s)
abs 2.1-1

Steps to reproduce:
execute abs
This task depends upon

Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 14:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:   FS#10686 
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 07:36 GMT
ABS's output using the new rsync method is similar to that of the old ABS script. If you want to shut up abs in your crons, redirect the output to /dev/null.
Comment by Erwin Van de Velde (evdvelde) - Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 07:52 GMT
Redirecting to /dev/null also removes possible error output and that does not seem a good idea to me...
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 08:11 GMT
If you redirect to /dev/null like this:

abs > /dev/null

only the messages sent to STDOUT will be surpressed, STDERR will still be output'ed. (So you'll still see error messages).

During my experiments, I found another bug: the abs script outputs every message to STDERR while it should only do that with error messages. I've posted a bugreport under  FS#10686 

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