stty: Not a character device

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Feb 9 01:09:40 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb7.204212.28660 at brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> exnirad at brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma) writes:
>What have I done wrong ? Is there something wrong with my /dev files ? I should

The problem is that you have an stty comand in your .cshrc or $(ENV) file 
depending upon the shell.  In each of the cases you described, your i/o
was being redirected to a non-tty hence the message.

The way to fix this is to put the stty commands into your .login file (or
the .profile file for ksh - assuming that $(ENV) is not .profile) and
the problems will go away.

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