From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 14:19:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13186 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 14:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13131 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 14:19:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA25715; Tue, 5 May 1998 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980505090857.00712cfc@lda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998, Peter Olsson wrote: > We use cpio-based backup to tape. It has worked very good for a long > time but recently we get failures a couple of days per week because of > "cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured". It's trying to tell you something but since it's not running on a tty (from cron maybe?) it can't create any output. Try |&'ing the output to sendmail. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message