From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 09:42:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15514 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 09:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gate.leissner.se (gate.leissner.se [193.45.192.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15468 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 09:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pol@leissner.se) Received: from leissner.se (uucp@localhost) by gate.leissner.se (8.8.5/8.8.4) with UUCP id QAA10859 for freebsd.org!questions; Thu, 7 May 1998 16:42:28 GMT Received: from lda.leissner.se by lda.leissner.se id aa21154; 7 May 98 18:42 SST Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980507184212.0076acc8@lda> X-Sender: pol@lda X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:42:12 +0200 To: Doug White From: Peter Olsson Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 13:17 1998-05-06 -0700, Doug White wrote: >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. You are right of course. I wasn't using my brain. It doesn't want /dev/tty for output, it wants it for input! And the problem is that it ran out of tape... Stupid me! Thanks for your help! Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message