A small patch for a minor annoyance

Michael Tautschnig michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com
Wed Mar 22 12:04:45 CET 2006


> Hello,
> 
> I recently noticed that if there are errors in either fai.conf or
> make-fai-nfsroot.conf then fai-setup will fail without really telling
> the user why it failed. For example I accidentally deleted a # from
> one of the comments in fai.conf. When I ran fai.conf I received the
> following error message:
> 
> /usr/sbin/fai-setup: line 5: installserver: command not found
> 
> Now it is not obvious from the above error message that fai.conf is
> causing the problem. I suggest that you add some more error checking
> to fai-setup so when such errors happen fai-setup will give a more
> helpful error message. I have included a small patch to fix this. It
> is simple and I hope the FAI developers will find it useful.
>

Could you please file a wishlist-bug against FAI in the Debian BTS? That makes
tracking such things a lot easier. Furthermore, please always provide unified
diffs, i.e., use diff -u -- thanks!

Thanks for your effort,
Michael

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