Inadequate error reporting from nnrpd Perl loader

[River Tarnell]

In article <4F39015F.1020307 at trigofacile.com>,
Julien ÉLIE  <julien at trigofacile.com> wrote:
>> At no point does it indicate there was any error loading the script, or
>> what the error might be.

>Isn't the following line what you were looking for?
>Feb  3 17:39:00 isis nnrpd[2481]: Perl function authenticate not defined

That doesn't really tell me anything -- I already knew that 
authenticate() wasn't working, because no clients were able to 
authenticate.  But before I found the actual problem I spent about 20 
minutes looking at other things (like syntax errors in the script, nnrpd 
configuration, ...).  For a simple case like 'unable to open file', an 
error saying so would be quite nice.

Regards,
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