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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!broue!captain From: captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) Subject: Re: [NETBSD] Inappropriate ioctl for device Message-ID: <C8H5Kv.533@rot.qc.ca> Organization: Groupe de Recherche Operationnelle en Telecommunication (ROT) Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <1993Jun9.001731.23596@borland.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 20:43:43 GMT Lines: 40 John Haskey (johnh@borland.com) wrote: > Hello all, > Pardon me for asking what may be a FAQ or something which requires a > simple RTFM but here goes: > Each morning when I log onto my NetBSD 0.8 + XFree86 system for the first > time I get the following message: > Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). > Thus no job control in this shell. > If I log out and then log back in again, all is fine. Similiarly, when I > exit from X I get: > Cannot execute KBDFORCEASCII ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device > What could be causing this and is there a simple way to fix it? Thanks > for any light that can be shed on this problem... I get the same thing! I've been wondering what it is as well, it appears to be connected in some way with the scripts that are run at 2 am to report network activity and changed files. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- captain@broue.rot.qc.ca | Andrew Webster | "The engines canna take it | | anymore cap'n..." IP: 192.77.49.131 | ROT inc. ------------------------------ | Recherche Operationnelle en Telecommunication | Voice: +1 514 737 0020 | Dataradio Inc. Fax: +1 514 737 7883 | Montreal, Quebec -------------------------------------------------------------------------------