* Thibault, Daniel (daniel.thiba...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca) wrote:
> -----Message d'origine-----
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:18:07 -0500
> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] A problem
>
> Fix: meaningful error message
>
> Show a meaningful error message to users attempting to do kernel tracing
> without root sessiond/tracing group creds.
>
> e.g.:
>
> compudj@thinkos:~$ lttng enable-event -k -a
> Error: A root sessiond needs to be running, and user part of the "tracing"
> group, to activate kernel tracing
> ------------------------------
>
> The English of the message could be improved. How about this?
>
> Error: Tracing the kernel requires a root sessiond daemon and user membership
> in the "tracing" group
I took something derived from your proposal, pushed with commit:
commit 30905cf43c5d22fff11b8025bf09dc9b82659c18
Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
Date: Tue Mar 6 10:40:06 2012 -0500
Fix: improve need root for kernel tracing error message
Reported-by: "Thibault, Daniel" <daniel.thiba...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
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