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Old 08-02-2004, 12:43 PM   #1
scabies
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CVS update problem.


I get this error when I try to update through CVS...

stdin: is not a tty

i'm not sure what that means, and didn't really see anything at google/linux that related to my problem. anyone know what this means?

thanks!!!
Mike
 
Old 08-02-2004, 01:50 PM   #2
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where are you running the command from(a shell script??) and what command are you running?
 
Old 08-02-2004, 02:40 PM   #3
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The program you are running is expecting the standard input to come from a terminal, or terminal emulator. It doesn't.

Possibly you're using a pipe (|) or stdin redirection (<) wrongly; see the bash manual page for more:
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man bash
 
  


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