Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:42:12 +0200 From: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980507184212.0076acc8@lda>
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13:17 1998-05-06 -0700, Doug White wrote: >On Wed, 6 May 1998, Peter Olsson wrote: > >> Hello and thanks for your reply! >> >> Below is an extract from the backup-script. These are the only places >> where cpio is used in the script, once for writing and once for verifying. >> I can't see where cpio would write to /dev/tty, but I might miss something. > >It'll want to open the terminal if it wants to tell you something. Try >running it manually and see what it's complaining about. You are right of course. I wasn't using my brain. It doesn't want /dev/tty for output, it wants it for input! And the problem is that it ran out of tape... Stupid me! Thanks for your help! Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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