Package: sudo Version: 1.6.9p17-1 Severity: wishlist Season's Greetings!
Ummm, of late I have been helping some members of the LUG I belong to, who are running a Debian based system (Ubuntu). They are newbies, whereas I've been running UN*X since 1984. Anyway, yesterday we were running across a problem that required the newbie to load a module. The command (modprobe) executed without error, and yet the first report back from the newbie was that it failed. Instead, the command "did nothing", and this was interpretted as failure. I wonder if something like a "-n" (for newbie) switch might be added to sudo. If set, it would explicitly inform the user that things either ran successfully or failed, and hopefully in the case of failure, give a "better" error message (actually, append an "explanation" to the normal error reported on stderr from the command sudo ran). I've seen at freshmeat, that someone has a library of "improved error messages", and most newbies running sudo don't seem to run that many different commands. Anyway, something to think about. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sudo depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l sudo recommends no packages. sudo suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
