[Mailman-Users] Wrapper gid problem

[Mitchell Marks]

At 11:58 PM 9/4/01, J C Dill wrote:


>This is covered in the readme.
>
>There are also 202 posts in the archive of this list that discuss the 
>"wanted gid" error:
  [...]

Indeed, it's a *V*FAQ.

But is there room here to revive the idea of making the error message a 
little more self-explanatory?  Yes, I know it has the "(Reconfigure to take 
___?)" question, which helps.  But I suggest that "wanted" and "got" are 
less than ideal.

  I can't offer something equally terse, but at a little greater verbiage 
how about something more like "configured to take gid ___" and "was run 
under gid ___"?  Naturally these are just "wanted" and "got" in more words 
but to my ear that sort of spelling it out does assist comprehension.

Other suggestions along this line?

Regards,

Mitch Marks




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