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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: script(1) broken in 2.1R Date: 5 May 1996 15:45:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4miiel$sb9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <rreiner.831212254@nexus.yorku.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) wrote: > script(1), as distributed in FreeBSD 2.1R, is broken -- it creates a > zero-byte typescript, produces the error "opentty: no such file", and > exits. Under which circumstances? j@uriah 529% script foo Script started, output file is foo j@uriah 51% date Sun May 5 17:45:09 MET DST 1996 j@uriah 52% exit exit Script done, output file is foo j@uriah 530% cat foo Script started on Sun May 5 17:45:05 1996 j@uriah 51% date Sun May 5 17:45:09 MET DST 1996 j@uriah 52% exit exit Script done on Sun May 5 17:45:11 1996 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)