Subject: Bug#3984: NIS writes error message to STDERR

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 12:59:07 +0200 (MET DST)

You (Brian C. White) wrote:
> Package: nis
> Version: 1.20-1
> 
> I having problems with cron reporting the following error should the
> NIS server be unavailable.
> 
> 	yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error
> 
> This is very annoying as I will get mail every minute or two when cron
> tries to execute at-run.  This is also causing a problem with gnats as
> it thinks the mail is a bug report and starts processing it.
> 
> I assume it is NIS doing this since cron works fine without NIS
> installed.
> 
> This should be handled more gracefully.  A background utility like this
> should be sending errors via syslog or something instead of writing to
> STDOUT or STDERR.

This is a bug in the library; the library routines print this (they
shouldn't ofcourse). Heeemmm can anybody tell me how to redirect
a bug report to another package, libc5 in particular?

Mike.
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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 21:55 BST

Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Bug#3984: NIS writes error message to STDERR"):
...
> a bug report to another package, libc5 in particular?

Yes.  [email-masked]' can.  As can
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/debian-bugs/.  Or
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/bug-*.txt.

I can too, but I think you should RTFM.

Ian.