Subject: Re: [vserver] running vserver in cron: stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:34:09 +0200

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> Hi,

> To backup my vservers, I run a script from cron, and this
> script stop, backups up and starts each vserver.
> The vserver command however outputs this error:

>   stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

please show us the script and the crontab invocation

> Any idea how I can avoir this error message?

> I'm running on debian:
> ii  util-vserver                        0.30.216~r2772-6
>      user-space tools for Linux-VServer virtual private servers

better update to a more recent version

> ii  vserver-debiantools                 0.6.3
>      Tools to manage debian virtual servers

better get rid of that completely before it does
some real damage (but maybe it already did)

best,
Herbert

> Thx
> Raph