Dominik Vogt via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> The config-mod commands generates an error if it does not change
> anything:
>
> $ ipa config-mod --ipaselinuxusermap="....."
> ipa: ERROR: no modifications to be performed
>
> As for real errors, the return code is 1, so this cannot be used
> to detect "nothing to be done" errors.
>
> This makes it very inconvenient to write scripts that overwrite a
> value and do not care what the current value is. Is there an easy
> way to suppress this kind of errors?
No.
>
> I could do something like
>
> { ipa config-mod ... 2>&1 && echo && echo succes; } |
> grep -qE "(success)|(no modifications to be performed)"
>
> but that's really ugly and depends on the exact wording and
> language of the error message.
You could force a specific locale in order to ensure the message doesn't
change. It hasn't in many, many years.
>
> (This is also a problem for other "add" commands like user-add,
> group-add, selinuxusermap-add etc.)
What's the problem? Can you provide some examples?
rob
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