From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: What does "job control requires tty" mean? Date: 15 Feb 1993 22:55:29 GMT
In article <1lns69INN31t@uwm.edu>, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
|> Ever since I installed Hong Jiu Lu's 0.99.2 root/base/gcc/lib-disks, I've
|> been seeing this message whenever I run a shell-script or even "make":
|>
|> job control requires tty
|>
|> Most things have been working fine, but the fact that this happens during
|> a "make" really has me nervous... What does it *mean*? How can I fix this
When you invoke sh, which is linked to pdksh 4.7 on my rootdisk, it tries to
get a tty for job control even if it is called as a shell script. You
don't need job control for that.
|> problem and get rid of this annoying message?
|>
Get the pdksh 4.7 source code and comment it out. Or, that is what I did,
cd /bin
ln -sf bash sh
I put pdksh on rootdisk to save some disk spaces. BTW, pdksh 4.7 is very buggy.
Does anyone know if there is a new version?
H.J.