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Article: 13051 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: Re: Can't open("/dev/tty",O_RDWR) in RH7.1/ia64
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>Anyway, as others have pointed out by now, there's a bug in Red Hat 7.x
>/bin/login (for which a patch exists) and the problem supposedly does not
>occur if you use bash instead of csh or tcsh (but I can't verify this today
>because the site is down or off the net).
Well, I just downloaded the patch for my rh 7.1 system (not on an IA-64,
mind you :-), and it does seem to work fine (although I don't know where
they got the idea it only happened with tcsh - it happened to me with
bash all the time, but the patch seems to fix it for bash as well).
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