bug#33270: [SHEPHERD] Wrong error message when missing priviledge

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Ricardo,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 5., H, 20:50):
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> swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
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> > address@hidden ~$ herd status
> > error: connect: /run/user/30011/shepherd/socket: No such file or directory
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Actually this seems to be a message that can be translated to
'shepherd user instance is not running' am I correct?
I guess that way it is explicit that the command given would like to
talk to a shepherd user instance. Am I missing something here?

> It is possible to run shepherd as a user service manager.  This means
> that we can’t generally assume that the user meant to communicate with
> the init instance.
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> The error could be that either the user’s instance is not running or
> that the user meant to communicate with the init system.  It is not
> obvious to me how to distinguish these two errors.
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> --
> Ricardo
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Best regards,
g_bor