Re: bug in server-start

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

  > 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.

Again, can you please point out where exactly I said that the message
you cited was not confusing???

  > > 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.

You haven't yet given any explanation why not.