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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Help: tcsh doesn't work with FreeBSD
Message-ID: <g89r4222.760173574@kudu>
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <ghGh_3u00WB9Mfv3Yj@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 07:19:34 GMT
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In <ghGh_3u00WB9Mfv3Yj@andrew.cmu.edu> "N. R. Natraj" <nn07+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>I have FreeBSD 1.0.2 running on my machine and when I start tcsh I get
>the following

>Warning: no access to tty (Operation not supported by device).
>Thus no job control in this shell.

>I looked through the source code and figured out where this message was
>coming from. It looks like there seems to be a problem with the group to
>which I belong to. Since I am not very familiar with this stuff I would
>greatly appreciate any help on fixing this. Thanks in advance.

I have seen this problem before (but haven't ever tried to trace
the cause).  Generally logging out and logging in again sets
things to rights again.....


Geoff.

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