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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: rdump fails w/ error 1
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<<On Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:34:44 -0800 (PST), Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> said:

>   DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched.
>   DUMP: (rmtgets got "mesg: ttyname: Operation not ").
> rdump: Lost connection to remote host.

You are running csh, and have included per-login-session commands in
your .cshrc (i.e., `mesg') which belong in .login.  You should either
move the commands to your .login file, or one of the csh users can
tell you how to protect these commands from non-interactive shells.

-GAWollman

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