Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:56:35 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dump says "fopen on /dev/tty failed" (was: no subject) Message-ID: <199606131256.NAA05764@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr>
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> > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> > DUMP: Closing /dev/nrmt0h
> > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
> > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
> > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > What is that and how to fix it...?
>
> Your command line is probably wrong. Why on earth it wants to open
> /dev/tty is beyond me.
>
Any chance that this dump is being run in a non-interactive
environment ? (cron, at, some local batch system, etc.)
When switching tapes, dump *really* wants a human to type "y" or
whatever when the new tape is loaded, so it probably opens /dev/tty in
case standard input is redirected. In a non-interactive environment,
opening /dev/tty could conceivably fail.
Just my guess...
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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