Rustic returns exit code 0 when errors occur

[florensie]

For automation tools it would be useful if a non-zero exit code is returned when the repository is not initialized. In fact this is exactly what Restic suggests you do in their scripting documentation, but it doesn't work for Rustic:

/app # restic -r test cat config
Fatal: unable to open config file: stat test/config: no such file or directory
Is there a repository at the following location?
test
/app # echo $?
1
/app # rustic -r test cat config
using no config file, none of these exist: /root/.config/rustic/rustic.toml, /etc/rustic/rustic.toml, ./rustic.toml
error: No repository config file found. Is there a repo at local:test?
/app # echo $?
0

There may be more instances where exit codes are not properly implemented, but this is all I have tested as of now.

[aawsome]

@florensie Thanks for opening the issue - in fact rustic doesn't return exit codes if something fails. This should be enhanced.
A workaround is to grep the output for error messages or warnings in your scripts.

About the exit code when the repository is not initialized: What is your specific use case? If it is to check whether a repository should be initialized before backing up, try rustic backup --init.

[florensie]

For my case I need to check the existing snapshots before I do any backups, so unfortunately --init isn't an option. You could consider making --init a global parameter.

[aawsome]

Sorry for the late follow-up! Out of curiosity: Can you describe your use case in more detail? What do you want to do and where do you need the information if the repository is initialized?

[aawsome]

I just recalled that non-0 exit codes should be already implemented; at least I thought that

 if let Err(err) = self.inner_run() {
            status_err!("{}", err);
            RUSTIC_APP.shutdown(Shutdown::Crash);
        };

should do exactly this. But it seems it doesn't....
@simonsan Can you have a look at it?

[simonsan]

    /// Shut down this application gracefully, exiting with success.
    fn shutdown(&self, shutdown: Shutdown) -> ! {
        let components = self.state().components();

        if let Err(e) = components.shutdown(self, shutdown) {
            fatal_error(self, &e)
        }

        process::exit(0);
    }

Shutdown always returns 0 as exit code, I might open an issue upstream with abscissa to allow for non-zero exit codes there.

Ref.: iqlusioninc/abscissa#857

[simonsan]

The corresponding PR with delivering an extra method for this has been merged and a new abscissa release will be made soon™️.

[Schweber]

Is it possible to pin the latest master of abscissa and use this version as a stopgap until a "real" release is made?