RE: Wierd crankiness update
Looks to me like your /dev directory might have been stepped on. Looks like
/dev/tty is a regular file created by the redirected output of the echo.
You might delete /dev/tty and create a new device.
I think the command would be:
mknod /dev/tty c 5 0
but someone might want to correct me on that.
It is owned
root tty
on my machine.
On 07-Oct-97 Darin Johnson wrote:
>Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked
>it a bit further. It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that
>it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up.
>
>Symptoms:
> $ echo howdy > /dev/tty
> $ cat /dev/tty
> howdy
> $ cat /dev/tty
> howdy
> $
>
>That is, the first echo has no output, but each successive cat will
>print the output. This is contrary to a well running unix system,
>where the first echo will print to the tty, and a cat /dev/tty will
>block.
>
>I've verified this under 2.1.55 and 2.0.30. I have a mix of hamm and bo.
>Further hints?
>
>
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