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> > So, now George hijacked my thread? 
> > I'm doing sleep 5 >/dev/null 2>&1 to be (absolutely as) sure (as I can) that te script doesn't ouput anything unexpected. I read somewhere that any output from the pre-freeze-script.sh will be interpreted as a failure. Somewhere else I read that an exit 1 means failure and exit 0 means success. I have yet to test that. > ooops. sorry about that. yes, exit 0 means success and exit 1 means failure (actually exit nonzero). this has been so since the epoch began. on UNIX and Linux, true for shell scripts as well as executables. fyi, sleep is a inbuilt command that is part of the shell. if you are using bash, here is doco: www.gnu.org/.../ (bash doc is there even if you arent using bash 
) regards, gus “less is my favorite editor. too bad it can’t actually edit files.” Chris Lesniewski-Laas
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> > I'm doing sleep 5 >/dev/null 2>&1 to be (absolutely as) sure (as I can) that te script doesn't ouput anything unexpected. I read somewhere that any output from the pre-freeze-script.sh will be interpreted as a failure. Somewhere else I read that an exit 1 means failure and exit 0 means success. I have yet to test that. > ooops. sorry about that. yes, exit 0 means success and exit 1 means failure (actually exit nonzero). this has been so since the epoch began. on UNIX and Linux, true for shell scripts as well as executables. fyi, sleep is a inbuilt command that is part of the shell. if you are using bash, here is doco: www.gnu.org/.../ (bash doc is there even if you arent using bash ) regards, gus “less is my favorite editor. too bad it can’t actually edit files.” Chris Lesniewski-LaasContinue reading...