On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:53:40PM -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Whenever some job is sent to the background and it finishes, it displays > a message on the shell with the exit code. ... > ... > I understand that I can get the exit code with $? but is there some way > I can get the associated message (Done/Terminated/Sementation Fault...) > with the exit code? Unfortunately, every exit code is a function of the individual program that last ran, or the shellscript itself. Do a man on the various commands; you'll find a wide range of exit codes. About the only thing you can really count on--usually--is that an exit code of zero means everything was OK. Cheers, -- -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
