Return code of offlineimap

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:59:25 +0000 (UTC), Peter-Alexander Pöltl wrote:
> Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I simply check using pidof /usr/bin/offlineimap
> 
> Of course you can do this but it won't tell you if the last backup run was 
> successful.
> 
> I start it via a bash script and want to know if it was successful so I can take 
> appropriate steps if not.

Nice of you to care enough about a year old mail to reply to it
:-P. That having said, we plan to document return codes better.

So far, it is 0: success, 1: error so your bash scripts can already work
with that. We definitely need more fine grained error codes in the near
future though.

Sebastian
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