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shepherd: make error message for service not found 'smarter'

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From: ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: shepherd: make error message for service not found 'smarter'
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:31:12 +0000

This is the current displayed variant:

[user <at> abyayala ~]$ sudo herd ntpd stop                                                                                                                                                                                        [3/3]
Password:
herd: service 'stop' could not be found
[user <at> abyayala ~]$ sudo herd stop ntpd
Service ntpd has been stopped.

**

A good solution could be to display the usage of the herd stop $foo.

~~
sudo herd ntpd stop
herd: service 'stop' could not be found.
Did you mean 'herd stop foo'?
~~

or have it display the $foo which was used.

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