Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505141844.25528b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980505090857.00712cfc@lda>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Peter Olsson wrote: > We use cpio-based backup to tape. It has worked very good for a long > time but recently we get failures a couple of days per week because of > "cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured". It's trying to tell you something but since it's not running on a tty (from cron maybe?) it can't create any output. Try |&'ing the output to sendmail. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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