From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 22:20:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17629 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17020 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19614; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:18:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd019598; Tue Feb 24 23:18:51 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10698; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:18:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802250618.XAA10698@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: errormessages To: seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (Masahiro Sekiguchi) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980225131624C.seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> from "Masahiro Sekiguchi" at Feb 25, 98 01:16:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why dont errormessages contain an unique errornumber too? > > Because it makes users feel some thing like they were living in '50s > or '60s. :-) The big win here is internationalization of manuals instead of error messages. This actually makes a lot of sense for encapsulated messages (like sendmail). I've actually been thinking that it's about time someone built an RFC for message formats for log messages. I was thinking "STARTED", "READY", "SHUTDOWN", "STOPPED" would be a good start. Consider the case where you are trying to track a sendmail problem, and you don't have notification of "stop", only of "start" and "event". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message