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Make droproot say something when successful.
authorWesley Shields <[email protected]>
Fri, 16 May 2014 14:32:55 +0000 (10:32 -0400)
committerDenis Ovsienko <[email protected]>
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:09:39 +0000 (22:09 +0400)
commit923919d11485eee7dc9118ebca7e6ca91aea2907
treec572c81dc905e96ae07e258e841325df4735d4ae
parentf0f2e6d058c90f758bc13c119d738317b2452911
Make droproot say something when successful.

I've seen people run into situations where they were using a command like this:

tcpdump -i eth0 -G 500 -w /root/%H%M%S.pcap

The first file would be created successfully but the second file would not
because their version of tcpdump was dropping privs. It was unclear to them
that this was going on and was causing confusion.

At least with this message in there it should become more evident that
privs are being altered and aid in debugging these kinds of problems.
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