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Subject: Re: Service startup errors
Date: 31 Dec 2025 19:41:29 GMT
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:55:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-12-31, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:53:56 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> But if it means something to them, it's still miles ahead of a
>>> "something went wrong" message.  If you're lucky you might find a list
>>> of what the error codes mean.
>>
>> https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/10/linux-error-codes/
>>
>> printf("Oh shit! %s\n", strerror(errno));
> 
> Alternatively, "This should never happen!"

	/* Should never happen, but... */

Actual comment in the source and it's not the only one. It's in an else 
clause and does have a reasonable message

sprintf(error_msg, "The Alert Type \"%s\" is invalid.", ModAlertType);
update_message(msgbox, ModAlertType);

It's not clear how someone could select an unknown alert type from a GUI 
list but j.i.c...