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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2ioo4j$ge0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <ghGh_3u00WB9Mfv3Yj@andrew.cmu.edu> <g89r4222.760173574@kudu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.