Bug 263

Summary:	Expect fails from cron
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	smathews
Component:	tcltk	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
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Description smathews 1998-12-02 17:02:51 UTC

I have many scripts written in expect to do system
administration type stuff.  Scripts that invoke another
program with the 'spawn' command fail with:
failed to get controlling terminal using TIOCSCTTYparent:
sync byte write: broken pipe.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1998-12-03 22:41:59 UTC

This bug has been assigned to a developer for further review.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-04-08 22:25:59 UTC

Programs run from cron do not have a controlling tty.
You might try redirecting stdin and stdout explicitly to /dev/console
in the cron entry:
x x x x x x myscript < /dev/console > /dev/console