[rancid] MAX_ROUNDS

[Alan McKinnon]

Is there a good reason why MAX_ROUNDS is limited to >= 1 in control_rancid?

I want it to be 0 and have good reasons for wanting that, are there any
side effects to this:

--- control_rancid      2012-03-20 20:36:41.000000000 +0200
+++ control_rancid.new  2013-06-28 10:03:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -128,11 +128,11 @@

 # Number of things par should run in parallel.
 PAR_COUNT=${PAR_COUNT:-5}
-# Number of times failed collections should be retried.  Minimum 1.
+# Number of times failed collections should be retried.  Minimum 0.
 MAX_ROUNDS=${MAX_ROUNDS:-4}
-if [ $MAX_ROUNDS -lt 1 ] ; then
-    echo "Error: MAX_ROUNDS must be at least 1."
-    MAX_ROUNDS=1
+if [ $MAX_ROUNDS -lt 0 ] ; then
+    echo "Error: MAX_ROUNDS must be 0 or more."
+    MAX_ROUNDS=0
 fi

 # Bail if we do not have the necessary info to run



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com