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To: Robert Burns <rjbproc@Vir.com>
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Subject: Re: Must be on a vty - Error 
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 07:31:31 -0700
From: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
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Robert Burns wrote...

   I'm trying to figure out why I get the following message:


   Must be on a vty: Inappropriate ioctl for device

you have vidcontrol or kbdcontrol trying to do something from your shell's
startup files.  put a wrapper around it, i.e., 

# (from my ~/.login)

if ( `tty` =~ /dev/ttyv* ) then
        vidcontrol -r yellow blue
endif


faried.