From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 13:17:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11149 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10937; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:17:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980506220006.00b90180@lda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, Peter Olsson wrote: > Hello and thanks for your reply! > > Below is an extract from the backup-script. These are the only places > where cpio is used in the script, once for writing and once for verifying. > I can't see where cpio would write to /dev/tty, but I might miss something. It'll want to open the terminal if it wants to tell you something. Try running it manually and see what it's complaining about. 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