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On 09/01/14 11:46, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > What error message would you like it to print? > > How about: > > This file does not exist. I've tried to find it for you, but really, > it's not there, and I'm a computer, I know what I'm talking about. > If you want me to try again, I will, but really, the file is not there. > It is an ex-file, a file no more, it's gone to the great bit-bucket in > the sky (if it ever existed in the first place, which frankly, I doubt) > Retry, Abort or take up baking? :) I, for one, would absolutely *love* it if my operating systems would talk to me like that. Commonly seen in OpenBSD but not in any other OS I know of by default, is the "insults" feature of sudo where it will abuse you if you typo your password: http://www.bani.com.br/lang/en/2007/01/sudo-insults/ I once made the mistake of enabling that for a medical research lab in a hospital and then had a huge spike in my security logging as the post-grad students gleefully showed all their colleagues what happened when they tried to sudo... Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq