Everytime I have seen this message it was because there was a 

    . $HOME/.profile

to ensure that the environment was correct and because the script was
run from a cron.
By the way, there was
     stty erase ^H
in .profile.

    . $HOME/.profile 2>/dev/null

fudged the problem.

HTH,

Stephane Faroult
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Steve Sapovits wrote:
> 
> SQL*Plus is probably performing terminal specific ioctl settings;
> e.g., setting it in something other than line mode so it can update
> the screen more efficiently, etc.
> 
> For scripting SQL, I'd recommend making a move to Perl/DBI.  It rocks!
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kempf, Reed [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:41 PM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject:      connecting to sqlplus within a shell script
> >
> > I use a lot of shell scripts (korn mainly) which use connections to
> > sqlplus
> > and always seem to get this error message when the script logs into
> > sqlplus:
> > stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > Here is my connection procedure within the script: sqlplus -s
> > sitemon/sitemon << END
> >
> > To my knowledge it does not appear to cause any problems with my shell
> > script or output but would really like to know why I am getting it and if
> > there is any recommendations for fixing the problem.
> >
> > OS: Red Hat Linux 6.2
> > ORACLE: 8.1.7 standard edition
> > shell: korn
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Reed
> >
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