/etc/cron.daily/sa-update failure?

[Glenn Steen]

On 08/05/06, Marcel Blenkers <marcel-ml at irc-addicts.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> after upgrade to the lastest MailScanner-Version (V 4.53.7) on a SuSE10, i
> received an error-mail to root, that the cron.daily failed.
>
> After reading the Mail, i saw that sa-update seemed to fail. At least this
> is what the mail said:
>
> SCRIPT: sa-update exited with RETURNCODE = 1.
>
> Moving sa-update outside of cron.daily worked.
> cron.daily worked again..
>
> /usr/bin/sa-update
>
> is existing..
>
> is there anything i should set up first??
>
> Any help welcome..
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marcel
man sa-update
should contain the details... IIRC returning 1 means there was no
update to perform, while 0 means there was one and that it worked
OK... 4 is the "bad" one:).

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