From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 4 14:07:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C38F16A417 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:07:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2DD13C461 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:07:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A6BBD09 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:47:48 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: OVlAL3LKWg6vkN9cgnhaRBP7zHg46K39GzHNXT0/7Kio 1186235268 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128893527 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0A638D13-F341-4645-B750-33B08730EDA7@goldmark.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: questions@freebsd.org From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:47:46 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: Subject: stty: unknown mode: doofus X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:07:41 -0000 During an installation, ports/lang/python24, I did a sudo make install And was prompted for my password. I entered it (probably miskeyed it as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a response back of stty: unknown mode: doofus and was prompted again for my password, which I entered more carefully the second time and everything proceeded normally. It's certainly true that I felt like a doofus for mistyping the password, but I was surprised to have the confirmed by some peculiar stty message. Enlightenment, beyond calling me a doofus, on this would be appreciated Jeffrey (doofus) Goldberg -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/