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| author | bescoto <bescoto@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2003-09-09 18:00:04 +0000 |
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| committer | bescoto <bescoto@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2003-09-09 18:00:04 +0000 |
| commit | 7661c430367e74c4d20e886fbf699365d949752f (patch) | |
| tree | 31f820d4b3dd3e02f8ab9fe00102533c6014dac6 /rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | |
| parent | 20e5b03d180dab53071aa4e2a923f6cc99001f73 (diff) | |
| download | rdiff-backup-7661c430367e74c4d20e886fbf699365d949752f.tar.gz | |
Added section on exit status, TODO --datadir note
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@420 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index f3db272..a057988 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -861,6 +861,15 @@ option. The log file is not compressed and can become quite large if rdiff-backup is run with high verbosity. +.SH EXIT STATUS + +If rdiff-backup finishes successfully, the exit status will be 0. If +there is an error, it will be non-zero (usually 1, but don't depend on +this specific value). When setting up rdiff-backup to run +automatically (as from +.BR cron (8) +or similar) it is probably a good idea to check the exit code. + .SH BUGS rdiff-backup uses the shell command .BR mknod (1) |