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

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <20030108182104.GA8294 at codepoet.org>
          Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> wrote:

> 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. 

Right!  I have now rewritten my inittab file to leave the first field blank
and everything seems to be working properly.  I guess what has happened is
that init's behaviour has been changed (probably fixed) and that I was just
getting away with with having all the first fields set to 'console' before.

It now reports that it is starting the processes on /dev/ttyS0 which is where
the console really is.

-- 
Stewart Brodie, Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology PLC
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