[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#670132: Useless " ...terminated." messaged at the end of su invocation

Yuri D'Elia wavexx at thregr.org
Thu Apr 26 20:49:11 UTC 2012


On 25.04.2012 20:11, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> $ su -c id
>> Password:
>> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>>  ...terminated.
>> $ su -
>> Password:
>> # ^D
>>  ...terminated.
>> $
>>
>> This " ...terminated." message must be the most useless change to 
>> some core
>> unix utility I've seen so far. When I've seen it the first time I 
>> was honestly
>> thinking something broke or crashed due to a signal.
>>
>> Bring back the "success = no output" philosophy please.
>
> By any chance, are you using systemd ?

On this particular system that I used for the report I'm using upstart.

But I've got a testing system using systemd, and I also get the same 
message.






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