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From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: "stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on
Date: 25 Jun 1993 22:59:55 GMT
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
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References: <20fqja$2me@gilligan.htc.com>
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In article 2me@gilligan.htc.com, naughton@htc.com (Thomas Naughton) writes:
>
> I'm getting this problem on a Sun system as I'm trying to rcp
>a file from one machine to another. If I do this as root, I have no
>problem, but a regular user gets this error.
["stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on]
>It seems to occur when I
>do a number of remote commands. Has anyone seen this? Thanks in
>advance.
> I can't find anything in the manuals or man pages. If it's
>relevant, I'm running 4.1 on one of the machines.
It sounds rather like you have a "stty" command in your ".cshrc" file for
that user. This fails because "rcp" (and "rsh) have no stdin to do a stty on.
Move your "stty" command to ".login" and you should be fine provided
you don't have a "stty dec" in your .login which would later screw things up.
Or, you could guard your "stty" with something like:
if { tty -s } stty erase '^H'
This will not work if you are running on the console, however, as your ".login"
runs AFTER your last .cshrc there.
Let me know if that was the problem.
DCN
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David C. Niemi: David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com
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