INN 2.5.2: Minor sendinpaths bug

River Tarnell river at RT.UK.EU.ORG
Mon Dec 31 03:38:41 UTC 2012


Every day, I receive the following mail:

	Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:10:00 +0000 (GMT)
	From: Cron Daemon <news at ARYA.ORG.UK>
	To: news at ARYA.ORG.UK
	Subject: Cron <news at tamara> /usr/local/news/bin/sendinpaths
	
	62955: old priority 0, new priority 20

The problem is this line in bin/sendinpaths:

	# Renice to give other processes priority, since this isn't too important.
	renice 20 -p $$ > /dev/null

On FreeBSD, the renice output goes to stderr.

	$ renice -n 10 $$ >/dev/null
	88972: old priority 0, new priority 10
	$ renice -n 10 $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
	$

So, I suggest adding 2>&1 at the end of the line.  There's nothing that 
can really go wrong there, and even if it did it wouldn't really matter, 
so I don't see any issue with discarding other error messages.

	- river.


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