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Following my Solaris experience, I came across this question while installing Postfix package:
Do you want to install these as setuid/setgid files [y,n,?,q] y ERROR: Please enter yes or no.
Very stupid. It asked to enter “y” or “n” or “?” or “q” as answer. But it is expecting “yes” or “no” in fact. What kind of question is it???
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it is kind of Sun question!!!
dear babak , “ERROR” means Error ! if you enter y or Y or even yes it suppose you say yes , so if you see an Error , there is a problem in your “input” , it’s not stupid , what is your shell ? is there any installed keyboard layout ? …however, in Solaris when you asked to enter y or n ,”y”,”Y”,”yes”,”n”,”N”,”no” are valid inputs , take a look at sunos 2.9 reference
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Inpy, look at the question. And my answer. The question is to input y or n. (the script supposed to check against Y|y|N|n). So my answer which was “y” seems to be valid. but it returned error, and unless I entered “yes” strictly.
I believe this is very stupid. If it was expecting “yes” or “no”, it might ask it in the question. Got the point?
look at sun reference , they say y,Y,n,N,yes and no , All are valid and the error msg ( ERROR : please enter yes or no ) is shown when the entered value is out of this array , i personally enter “y” always and there is no problem, so i think its ‘cuz of an input error not stupidity
i think “the error reposting message” is a little bit stupid