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Article: 13392 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: getting error: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call
Date: 30 May 2002 13:57:34 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <3cf432a3_5@corp-goliath.newsgroups.com>,
<repost@nospam.innate2create.com> wrote:
: Been trying to convert a Kermit job to cron but get the following error
: output to stderr:
:
: tcgetattr: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call
:
: The kermit script is simple and works just fine manually, ie with a terminal
: session and downloading a file via xmodem from the remote host. However, in
: making it a cron job, it fails at the very moment the xmodem file transfer
: begins with a 0 byte file rcv'd. Dialing the modem works fine, getting
: carrier works fine and dialog to login with username and password works fine
: in cron mode, however, manual mode is successful in receiving the file via
: xmodem and cron is not.
:
Probably the error message is coming from your Xmodem program. Some of
these programs were not designed to be used as "clients" but only as "servers"
(these words have slightly different meanings in the XYZMODEM world). The
standard advice is to get an Xmodem program that was intended for client
use, such as crzsz:
http://www.omen.com/unixp.html
- Frank