su, 2005-10-30 kello 10:37 +0100, Marc Haber kirjoitti: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:58:23 +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That is my point - adduser will print a warning if the user already > >exists. > > > >So you need to check to make sure the user doesn't exist first, before > >attempting to add it. Or you get a stupid warning appearing when > >upgrading packages. > > If you feel disturbed by the warning, redirect addusers output to > /dev/null. It is specially tailored to not kill the package install if > the user already exists.
This means that all other error messages will go to /dev/null as well. adduser can fail for other reasons and it is not acceptable to make it harder to debug for the sysadmin. I've stumbled upon several packages doing that, and filed bugs on them, when testing things with piuparts, which happened to create a chroot that was valid, but caused chage, and therefore adduser, to fail. Packages that hid adduser's error messages were much more annoying to deal with than those that let chage's error message be visible. I don't know perl, so I can't create a patch, sorry, but at a guess changing the dief call around 693 to something that doesn't print out an error message if --quiet has been given would seem to do the trick. -- I sometimes mistake arrogance for intelligence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
