On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:38:56PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am concerned about nscd suddenly giving an actual error message
> > instead of silently returning non-zero, which might confuse the users.
> 
> Well, my personal preference would be not to worry about this until it
> becomes a real issue (that future error message may be descriptive
> enough, after all).

Adduser has _a lot_ of installations and is mainly used by maintainer
scripts. Thus, _a lot_ of people are bound to see error messages
generated by adduser and are bound to be confused by them.

> Or you can just add "2>/dev/null" to the nscd -i
> invocation.

That will also kill "real" error messages.

Greetings
Marc

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