From 222c8bba810cb20eeb60270e89857ab09324884d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:43:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] daemon bin: a more helpful error message on unknown
 arguments.

---
 src/bin/daemon.rs | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/daemon.rs b/src/bin/daemon.rs
index 04a4af2d..c12c8780 100644
--- a/src/bin/daemon.rs
+++ b/src/bin/daemon.rs
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ fn parse_args(args: Vec<String>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
     }
 
     if args.len() != 3 {
-        eprintln!("Unknown arguments '{:?}'.", args);
-        eprintln!("Only '--conf <configuration file path>' is supported.");
+        eprintln!("A TOML configuration file is required to run lianad. By default lianad looks for a 'config.toml' file in its data directory. A different one may be provided like so: '--conf <config file path>'.");
+        eprintln!("A documented example of the configuration file is available at https://github.com/wizardsardine/liana/blob/607c0abddab2ff5761b371c6020b0793b1a1bc97/contrib/lianad_config_example.toml.");
+        eprintln!("The default data directory path is a 'liana/' folder in the XDG standard configuration directory for all OSes but Linux ones, where it's '~/.liana/'.");
         process::exit(1);
     }