[BusyBox] TAKE 2: Message on Startup: "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Wed Jan 8 11:22:05 UTC 2003


On Wed Jan 08, 2003 at 05:52:42PM +0000, Stewart Brodie wrote:
> > Hmm. Interesting. Have you syslog? If have, what giving messages: "Starting
> > pid %d, console %s: '%s'\n", getpid(), a->terminal, cmdpath);
> > 
> >                   /dev/console or /dev/ttySN?
> 
> It reports /dev/console

Then you are running your shell on /dev/console.  You cannot get
working job control on /dev/console without hacking the kernel --
the kernel removes CTTY from /dev/console. 

 -Erik

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