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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help: tcsh doesn't work with FreeBSD
Date: 2 Feb 1994 17:33:07 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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Message-ID: <2ioo4j$ge0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <ghGh_3u00WB9Mfv3Yj@andrew.cmu.edu> <g89r4222.760173574@kudu>
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In article <g89r4222.760173574@kudu>,
Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>In <ghGh_3u00WB9Mfv3Yj@andrew.cmu.edu> "N. R. Natraj" <nn07+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>>Warning: no access to tty (Operation not supported by device).
>>Thus no job control in this shell.
>
>
>I have seen this problem before (but haven't ever tried to trace
>the cause).  Generally logging out and logging in again sets
>things to rights again.....

This is a classic symptom of the 'hanging console' where it doesn't hang
but just screws up the settings.

This is fixed in the most current syscons now distributed in
FreeBSD-current.  (Thanks S'ren!)


Nate
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