On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net> wrote:
>> That suggests to me there being some value to having some sort of "fail
>> if not sufficiently up to date" command.
>
> Pretty much all my canned scripts start by issuing a sync and waiting
> for it. I think it is dangerous to do otherwise. Failing with a
> meaningful error rather than leaving sysadmins staring at a blinking
> prompt would be preferable.

Nice. What does this look like in the script?