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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!rs6-238.ucl-26.bcc.ac.uk!ucacdik From: ucacdik@ucl.ac.uk (Dimitris Kogias) Subject: Re: tcsh cannot access `tty' Message-ID: <1994Feb24.180544.22226@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 18:05:44 GMT References: <1994Feb24.143244@cs.utwente.nl> Organization: University College London Keywords: tcsh, tty, FreeBSD Lines: 40 olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah) writes: >-- >Hi, >I've installed FreeBSD 1.0.2 on my PC last weekend, but when I start tcsh >as my shell, I get the following message: > tcsh cannot access tty > thus no job control in this shell exactly what I sometimes get with my NetBSD 0.9 system (pccons driver) and tcsh. Didn't have this problem when I was using 386BSD/codrv-1.2 though, so I think the console driver is suspect (of course I might be wrong). Another interesting (and apparently related) "feature" is that the console locks up after using X, unless I have first logged in and then out as root, at which point both the 'cannot access tty' and console lockup problems disappear. Sometimes the problem will re-appear after I have exited X and logged out. After login, I get the same message from tcsh. >Apart from job control, I cannot use line editing, filename expansion, etc. >My setting is the default as FreeBSD comes `out of the box.' The only >change I made was in /etc/ttys so that getty uses the vga device to log in >(as suggested by the X installation package), and I installed tcsh from a >binary package for FreeBSD. In my .cshrc I use the same settings which >work perfectly on SunOS 4.1 at work. >I hope it's not a very stupid question, but I couldn't find anything in the >FAQ, nor in the man pages. Any help is greatly appreciated! There doesn't seem to be an answer so far, apart from using a different console driver (in NetBSD, I suppose it's the same for FreeBSD). >-- > Andras Olah olah@cs.utwente.nl Dimitris d.kogias@cs.ucl.ac.uk