Hello managers!
I've looked through the archives for an answer to this one, but I can't
find the answer that I'm looking for. We use the "stty cols" and "stty
dec" commands in a generic .profile which runs for everyone, and we
sometimes receive a message that says "stty: tcgetattr: Not a
typewriter" immediately after these commands have executed. We've
noticed that this message appears every time that we use the su command
in a script file; we've been having some problems with aliases being set
and staying set in these script files. Since this message appears after
a certain command has been executed in the .profile, is this an
indication that the .profile has blown off after the message appears?
That might explain the trouble with aliases.
What exactly does this message mean? Could it be causing problems with
aliases being set when the .profile is run?
Thanks for your input (I'll summarize)!
Stephen Spalding
Associate System Administrator
Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance
sspaldin_at_mem-ins.com
1000 West Nifong
Columbia, MO 65203
(573) 499-4230
(800) 442-0590
fax (573) 499 - 4310
Received on Fri Apr 10 1998 - 20:15:15 NZST