Another overhaul of the periodic stuff.

All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted
by periodic(8).  Output may be masked based on variable values in
periodic.conf.

It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses,
or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in
newsyslog.conf.

The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default
behaviour of periodic(8).

PR:	21250

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis b/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis
index 123be96..6af7747 100755
--- a/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis
+++ b/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis
@@ -13,34 +13,39 @@ fi
 
 case "$weekly_whatis_enable" in
     [Yy][Ee][Ss])
-	if [ -x /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local -a -x /usr/bin/manpath ]
-	then
-	    echo ""
-	    echo "Rebuilding whatis database:"
+	echo ""
+	echo "Rebuilding whatis database:"
 
-	    MANPATH=`/usr/bin/manpath -q`
-	    if [ $? = 0 ]
+	MANPATH=`/usr/bin/manpath -q`
+	if [ $? = 0 ]
+	then
+	    if [ -z "${MANPATH}" ]
 	    then
-		if [ "x${MANPATH}" = "x" ]
-		then
-		    echo "manpath failed to find any manpage directories"
-		else
-		    man_locales=`/usr/bin/manpath -qL`
+		echo "manpath failed to find any manpage directories"
+		rc=3
+	    else
+		man_locales=`/usr/bin/manpath -qL`
+		rc=0
 
-	            # Build whatis(1) database(s) for original, non-localized
-		    #  manpages.
-		    /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local "${MANPATH}"
+	        # Build whatis(1) database(s) for original, non-localized
+		#  manpages.
+		/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local "${MANPATH}" || rc=3
 
-	            # Build whatis(1) database(s) for localized manpages.
-		    if [ X"${man_locales}" != X ]
-		    then
-			for i in ${man_locales}
-			do
-			    LC_CTYPE=$i /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local -a \
-				-L "${MANPATH}"
-			done
-		    fi
+	        # Build whatis(1) database(s) for localized manpages.
+		if [ X"${man_locales}" != X ]
+		then
+		    for i in ${man_locales}
+		    do
+			LC_CTYPE=$i /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local -a \
+			    -L "${MANPATH}" || rc=3
+		    done
 		fi
 	    fi
+	else
+	    rc=3
 	fi;;
+
+    *)  rc=0;;
 esac
+
+exit $rc