[OpenAFS-devel] Return value on various command

[Todd M. Lewis]

The pts command returns 0 because it successfully listed the membership, 
which was nothing.

What you want is

   pts examine newuser

which will return 0 if 'newuser' exists, 1 otherwise.

El Barto wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using shell script to create my user, for testing if the user exist 
> I just do a :
> 
> $ pts membership newuser
> 
> The problem is that pts always set the return variable to 0.
> To bypass that I just pipe the result to wc -l because the error is 
> writing on fd 2, wc doesn't count this.
> 
> Is there a reason for always returning 0 ?
> 
> P.S. : By the way I'm using Openafs 1.4.4
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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