From 940ad410b941c5d0e5a5c62f901900978af8963a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bescoto <bescoto@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:02:01 +0000
Subject: Added section on exit status

git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/branches/r0-12@421 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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 rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 07b892b..8fa7816 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -885,6 +885,15 @@ 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)
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