/etc/cron.daily/apt spurious error message when dbus stopped

[dasdda]

Binary package hint: apt

I like to run my system with dbus stopped (but I still have dbus installed). I get a daily e-mail warning:

/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

This deluge of useless warnings has made me ignore all cron-originated mail, ultimately leading to loss of data (the daily backup system wasn't working, and I didn't realize it).

The following snippet in /etc/cron.daily/apt should redirect output to /dev/null, so that dbus-send errors are ignored:

        if which dbus-send >/dev/null; then
            dbus-send --system / app.apt.dbus.updated boolean:true

Surely dbus-send errors are not something to bother the admin about, right?

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

1592. By Paul Sladen <email address hidden> 10 hours ago

* Have 'cron.daily/apt' send D-Bus doesn't exist error messages
  to the bit bucket. Thanks to 'dasdda'. (LP: #115397)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

apt (0.7.6ubuntu12) gutsy; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * cmdline/apt-mark:
    - Fix chmoding after have renamed the extended-states file
      (thanks to Laurent Bigonville, LP: #140019)
  * apt-pkg/deb/debmetaindex.cc: comparison with string literal results
      in unspecified behaviour;
  * Reset curl options and timestamp between downloaded files. Thanks to
    Ryan Murray <email address hidden> for the patch

  [Paul Sladen]
  * Have 'cron.daily/apt' send D-Bus doesn't exist error messages
    to the bit bucket. Thanks to 'dasdda'. (LP: #115397)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:17:45 +0200