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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:37:40 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        vs@lucy.wrath.oche.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mesg: ttyname: Inappropriate ioctl for device?
Message-ID:  <19980924113740.B9068@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809231744.TAA02626@lucy.wrath.oche.de>; from "Volker Stolz" on Wed Sep 23 19:44:20 GMT 1998
References:  <199809231744.TAA02626@lucy.wrath.oche.de>

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In the last episode (Sep 23), Volker Stolz said:
> This is the message I get when using {r,s}cp. The copy is made
> nevertheless. Any hints on the origin of this message? /dev/tty*
> looks like the same on another FreeBSD-machine where I don't get this
> message.
> 
> Regards,
>    Volker

Check your login scripts and make sure you aren't running "mesg n" in a
script that's called on every invocation.  If your shell is zsh, for
example, the following files are executed, in this order:

.zshenv -- always loaded
.zprofile -- loaded if login shell
.zshrc -- loaded if interactive shell
.zlogin -- loaded if login shell

So you would put "mesg n" in .zprofile or .zlogin.  Check your shell's
manpage for more info.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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