[Adduser-devel] Bug#389958: deluser differs in output from delgroup

[Joerg Hoh]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.97
> Severity: normal
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>  bee# LC_ALL=C deluser --quiet --system FOOBAR > /dev/null || true       
>  bee# 
> 
>  bee# LC_ALL=C delgroup --quiet --system FOOBAR > /dev/null || true
>  /usr/sbin/delgroup: The group `FOOBAR' does not exist.
> 
>  It would be nice if both command would output the warning or no
>  warning.

Do you think it's a good idea to disable all output if there's --quiet set?
I just checked the code and found out, that we have a lot of output which
is always printed, independent of --quiet.

Maybe a policy: When there's --quiet given, no output to stderr?

Jörg


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