On 17 Nov 2011, at 5:36 am, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> 1) Isn't it fairly standard to use two hyphens for long options like this? > > Yeah, well, this is a diagnostic tool.
So are ping, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ... does that excuse them from using a conventional argument syntax? >> 2) It would be helpful to have a more descriptive message than just >> "Hard error." If the arguments are incorrect, it should say so. > > Actually, it thought that the argument were correct, and proceeded to look up > this hostname in DNS, didn't find it, hence the "Hard error". A clearer error message, such as "hard error: unable to resolve -dnssec", would alleviate the confusion. b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician Zygoat Creative Technical Services http://www.zygoat.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
