[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#375114: sysvinit: mesg should write its name when outputting an error message

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1
Severity: wishlist

Users get confused because of "stdin: is not a tty" error message,
e.g. when using svn+ssh. See for instance:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-07/1381.shtml

The same problem happened a few days ago. The mesg command should
write its name in its error messages, e.g.:

mesg: stdin: is not a tty

so that the user can know which command generated it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-20051215
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                2.86.ds1-14.1 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                1.30-1        SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                  1.12-1        Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  sysv-rc                    2.86.ds1-14.1 System-V-like runlevel change mech

sysvinit recommends no packages.

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