| From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| ... also a tip, use the command perror to find out
| what an error number means. Example:
|
| wolfgang(pts/5)$ perror 2
| Error code 2: No such file or directory
Cute. I had not known of perror(1) (perror(3) has been around for
perhaps 25 years).
perror(1) is part of the mysql-server package so not all folks have it
installed.
$ type perror
perror is /usr/bin/perror
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/perror
mysql-server-4.1.12-2.FC4.1
| You don't use the '-' in front of the number.
Right. The internal kernel functions tend to use negative errno(3)
values to indicate failure. These sometimes leak out into messages, as
in this case. errno(3) values themselves are strictly positve (0
means "no error").
