[Slapt-get-user] ChangeLog.txt + update-notifier Error

[sean donner]

Great, thanks for the quick fix, however it seems that the new script introduced a new warning/error which reads the following:

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Possible unintended interpolation of @CHLO in string at ./update-notifier line 210.
Name "main::CHLO" used only once: possible typo at ./update-notifier line 210.
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Also, just a suggestion for the $mailcfg{smtp} option; my ISP requires me to use SMTP AUTH before im allowed to relay to through their mail server. Now lucky for me I have set up sendmail on localhost so this isnt a problem, but im sure others out there using your script might not be running their own incarnation of sendmail and would benefit from an option that allows us to specify to use SMTP AUTH and provide our user/pass.  Thanks.



----- Original Message -----
From: J Kvalvaag <jk@nerdworks.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 8:04 am
Subject: Re: [Slapt-get-user] ChangeLog.txt + update-notifier Error

> > First off i'd like to thank Jason for making a nice little update to
> > slapt-get that gets rid of the error when tracking current.  However, Joran,
> > it seems that your script has a small bug in it because everytime your
> > program runs at night I get the following email:
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Subject: ALERT: Update-notifier is having trouble at maximus.atozcomp.com
> > To: siegex@atozcomp.com
> >
> > Failed to download
> > http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/10.0//patches/ChangeLog.txt
> >
> > The output from the command was:
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > If you manually check the link in the email you'll notice that in fact it
> > does not exist.  Whether or not it *should* be there I dunno, maybe Jason
> > can shed some light on that and propose a fix.  Im also curious why just the
> > email states "The output from the command was:" but then offers nothing
> > after that.
> >
> > And lastly, when I run your script manually I always get this warning as
> > well:
> > ------------------------------------
> > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> > /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier line 165.
> > ------------------------------------
> 
> Yes, faulty error check. The script tries to read SOURCE/patches/ChangeLog.txt
> to bring you an exerpt from the changelog regarding updated packages. This
> file does not exist on software.jaos.org.
> I also discovered that I hadn't checked the actual exit code of slapt-get on
> error, I assumed nonzero. The script now reads STDERR of slapt-get 
> instead, to
> determine success or not.
> 
> Updated script available at:
> http://www.nerdworks.org/download/scripts/update-notifier/
> 
> Happy Slackin'
> --
> Joran
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