Re: bug in server-start

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 18:00, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:

> What exactly made you think that I said the above message was not
> confusing???

I'm talking of the case where the user passes "server" as daemon name.

> Yes, if the user makes the conscious choice of passing an argument to
> --daemon, then you can mention it in the error message.  If she doesn't,
> then there's little point of doing so, especially when the message is so
> short and unexplanatory.

As I've stated previously, I don't agree with the "there's little
point of doing so" part.

> The take home message here is that the error messages need a bit more
> thought put into them.

I've put some more thought into it, and I still don't agree with you.
Let's hear other people's opinions.

    Juanma