On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:00:04 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is not a bug of rng and not related to 422085: > err. yes it is.
> * calling /usr/share/bug/texlive-doc-base 3>&1 aborts with an error > (getkey: command not found) when called in the console. > That's one of the documented functions such a script can rely on. > If you feel this is a bug of rng, please open a new report specific to > this problem and not to rng not using the scripts at all. > > * xserver-xorg: the output of the script is too long to handle so rng > added the following text to the mail (you should have seen that, Sune): > > -8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- > Please attach the file: > /tmp/reportbug-ng-xserver-xorg-oob9Xu.txt > to the mail. I'd do it myself if the output wasn't too long to handle. > > Thank you! > ->8--->8--->8--->8--->8--->8--->8--->8--->8--" > > as you can see rng already gathered the info and even put in in a file, > all the user has to do is to attach this file to the mail. > That doesn't make any sense. If you gather the info, then surely putting it in the mail is not much more work. I'm pretty sure you can attach files to a mail, if nothing else. > * mdadm: not tested, since not installed, but I assume its one of the > above problems. > > Try udev, it also comes with a script whose output isn't > 80kb big and > it works fine, rng attaches the output automatically and the user has > nothing to do. > > The "file too long" problem isn't rng's fault but a limitation of the > shell which can't execute commands of unlimited length. Rng detects such > cases where calling the MUA failed and puts the output in a file and > asks the user kindly to attach it. > Yes, it's rng's fault. I'm not sure why you say the shell has anything to do with this. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
