From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 04:57:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA15305 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA15298 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 04:56:57 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id NAA29485 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:56:54 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:56:36 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id NAA05764 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:56:35 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199606131256.NAA05764@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: dump says "fopen on /dev/tty failed" (was: no subject) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:56:35 +0100 (GMT-1) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > > DUMP: Closing /dev/nrmt0h > > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 > > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > What is that and how to fix it...? > > Your command line is probably wrong. Why on earth it wants to open > /dev/tty is beyond me. > Any chance that this dump is being run in a non-interactive environment ? (cron, at, some local batch system, etc.) When switching tapes, dump *really* wants a human to type "y" or whatever when the new tape is loaded, so it probably opens /dev/tty in case standard input is redirected. In a non-interactive environment, opening /dev/tty could conceivably fail. Just my guess... _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]