[pca] pca.sh exit code status

Martin Paul martin.paul at univie.ac.at
Thu Feb 9 09:50:18 CET 2012


Chris Gibson wrote:
> Should it not show an exit of 1? Also I would I exclude the exit status
> of 3, 4 and 5 as we are patching ABE's and don't care about the reboot
> notification.

I know, PCA's exit values are from perfect. The problem is that the requirements 
of the users are quite different, and it seems to be impossible to express all 
the demanded information in a single numerical value. So as I couldn't find a 
solution which would please everybody, I didn't put much effort into this.

In your case the best alternative would be to look for the "Download Summary" 
and "Install Summary" lines in PCA's output in your wrapper script. There you 
can get detailed information about all patch downloads and installations, 
separated into successful/skipped/failed patches.

Hope that helps,

Martin.



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