From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 07:42:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27835 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 07:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27830 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 07:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA21061; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 14:42:24 GMT Message-Id: <199606131442.OAA21061@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA297966943; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:42:23 -0600 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:42:23 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606131256.NAA05764@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> (af@biomath.jussieu.fr) Subject: Re: dump says "fopen on /dev/tty failed" (was: no subject) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Alain" == af writes: Alain> Any chance that this dump is being run in a non-interactive Alain> environment ? (cron, at, some local batch system, etc.) Alain> When switching tapes, dump *really* wants a human to type Alain> "y" or Yep. If you want to automate your dumps, a tool like `expect' is a lot more appropriate. Of course, there's also `amanda' ... -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/