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From: epic@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (EPIC)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD]: no job control
Date: 9 Dec 1993 18:58:22 -0500
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In article <2e7kpm$45e@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

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>	I have no idea what I did here, but suddenly, my console
>	loses job control on a regular basis.

Same Here

>	Pretty much the first thing I did when I installed NetBSD 0.9
>	two nights ago was to mknod vga c 12 0, and change /etc/ttys
>	so that the second and third line (turn off console, turn
>	on vga) were the ones being used for the console.

Dito

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>	Warning, no access to tty (inappropriate ioctl for device)
>	Thus no job control

I've started getting this message about 2-3 weeks ago, never caused
any problem since I would just logout and log back in. I've never
gotten this message under Xfree. I assume the problem is with the vga
driver or the way its been setup? 

Greg Bachrach
klyss@gnu.ai.mit.edu