From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) Subject: ANSWER!: job control requires tty Date: 16 Feb 1993 20:57:16 GMT
First, forget what Mr. Mellon said.
There's no need to patch the kernel! :-)
The "job control requires tty" is indeed caused by Hong Jiu Lu's buggy
Public Domain Korn Shell. You see, there was still a symbolic link
from /bin/ksh --> /bin/sh. So whenever a generic subshell was run, it
would call /bin/ksh and produce an error message.
To fix that, simply reassign the symbolic link to your favorite Bourne-
compatible shell (/bin/bash, in my case) like so:
ln -fs /bin/bash /bin/sh
However, this resulted in *another* error message popping up because of
a leftover setting in ~/.kshrc called "trackall". To fix this, simply
change the very last line of ~/.kshrc which reads:
set -o trackall -o ignoreeof -o monitor
to
set -o ignoreeof -o monitor
(That is, simply delete the "trackall" option setting because it
isn't a valid option under the Bourne-again shell.)
Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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