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From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.8 -- timed problem (?)
Date: 16 May 1993 11:33:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:


>Since the machine let me log in at console, I did so, and received 
>this message after logging in as root:

>|
>|Warning:  no access to tty (inappropriate ioctl for device)
>|
>|Thus no job control for this shell.
>|

>Pretty neat huh?

It is awsome.. I get it every day at 3:00am..when my crond runs /etc/daily...
If I happen to be in X when the job happens, my whole keyboard freezes..
I am still able to use the mouse to kill the login and kill X.  Oh yeah I am
also using syscons..the newest version but it happen to me in the old version
as well.  But since I am using syscons, only the tty01 gets messed up, the
other ttys are still okay so I learned to only run X on one of the other
ttys.  When I log in to tty01 after the jobs occurs, I get the message you
got.  Although things appear to work okay when I get this message, control
characters get messed up and simple things like more no longer work.  

Speaking of syscons, a funny thing always happens when I exit X that I didn't
experience when I was using 386BSD instead of NetBSD which is that I get
Cannot execute KBDFORCEASCII ioctl: Inapproriate ioctl for device
everything seems to work okay though.

Also, ever since I no longer mount an nfs partition, the /etc/security script
freezes when it tries to do that massive find..  

Does anyone know the answer to these problems?

-Greg Tanaka
glt@cco.caltech.edu
glt@ugcs.caltech.edu
glt@macross.caltech.edu (My rather stable NetBSD system)