[BusyBox] /bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off

Denis Vlasenko vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Tue Sep 7 05:29:28 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 07 September 2004 07:38, Jim F wrote:
> Hi. First, I wanted to just say BusyBox + uclibc
> rocks! I'm building an embedded router in a box
> using a WRAP 1.c board. I downloaded the uclibc
> and busybox-1.0-rc3. When I boot the board, I
> get an error when ash comes up on the console:
>
> /bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off

I guess you run it like this:

ash </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1

but /dev/console is a bit special: it cannot
be a *controlling tty*. If ash parent has no ctty,
ash wouldn't have ctty too and therefore
will be unable to use keyboard signals.

Try to use /dev/tty1 instead.
--
vda




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