Re: sa-update channel detail

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I don't want to add any email capabilities to the program. I think
> that's going a bit outside the scope of what the program should be
> responsible for.

I was not thinking of adding email to the program. But what if it never said anything unless there was an error or an update. If upon an update it printed out the list of channels updated then that would be mailed by cron automatically.

> Besides, if you run it from cron, you will automatically receive an
> email of any output from the program.

That works great for error notification. But not update notification.

> So the idea is to have the program be quiet if there are no updates and
> output information if there are updates or errors. Cron can handle
> emailing the information.

Agreed.

> Don't know when I'll have time to look at this, so don't hold your
> breath waiting on me. :)

No worries. I am not going to have time to look at it anytime soon either. My purpose was only to cheer from the sidelines those who might actually do the work. :-)

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Bob Received on Fri Oct 12 13:07:54 2007