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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 2002 05:38:24 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@oldie.sr.se>
To:        "Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor" <staylor@mrynet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A small annoyance
Message-ID:  <20020719053824.B38474@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <200207190302.g6J32e7P025223@mrynet.com>; from staylor@mrynet.com on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:02:40PM -0500
References:  <200207190302.g6J32e7P025223@mrynet.com>

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:02:40PM -0500, Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor wrote:
> > Since the latest update to OpenSSH there is a small thing that has
> > appeared on my machines (STABLE as of 30 Jun) When I run scp from a box
> > (it can be of any brand of OpenSSH) I get two lines saying:
> > 
> > tput: tgetent failure: No such file or directory
> > tput: tgetent failure: No such file or directory
> > 
> > The copy goes fine, but what does this mean?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> The errors are a result of something in your .profile or .cshrc
> that is trying to modify the stdout as a tty device.
> stty is the usual cause of this.  Your particular error messages 
> indicate that some program being executed at the remote shell's
> startup of .profile or .cshrc (or via them) is trying to perform
> a tgetent() call upon the stdin or stdout, but since those won't
> be a tty(4) type path, the calls fail.
> 
> Check your .profile or .cshrc and ensure that you're not attempting
> to modify the stdin/out via stty(1).  If you have such code in there,
> use conditionals to only perform them when an interactive login is
> detected.

Thanks! The tput thing came from a central bashrc, I installed a couple
of weeks ago. I'll remove the stty thing in it.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> -scott
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> Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor     InterNet: staylor@mrynet.com
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