On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>
> Heya, guys.
>
> I just got the ISOs for Mandrake 8.0/PPC installed on my iMac, and I'm
> having some difficulty.
>
> If I log in as a regular user, I can't use CTRL-C or CTRL-Z to
> kill/suspend jobs. It's as if the control characters are being ignored. If
> I log in as root, I can use these keys. If I log in as a user and "su" to
> root, I get the message "bash: no job control in this shell" before the
> root user gets a command prompt.
>
> If I try to ssh to another host from such a session, I get the message
> "You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase."
>
> Obviously, these are all interrelated, and probably have a simple
> solution, but I haven't a clue where to start looking.
>
> I'm not using X at the moment, which I imagine is significant to the
> problem (since I'd being using /dev/tty* instead of /dev/pts/*).
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> --ryan. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
I've seen this when telnetting into the PPC machine from another, but not
at the console. As a workaround, issue:
exec bash
And you should then have a normal shell.
Stew Benedict
--
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