[H-GEN] Strange cron email.

[Christopher Biggs]

Michael <dookie at dookie.humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Hi,
> 
> I awoke to find a rather large amount of email for root thismorning, they
> were all the same as ...
> 
> 
> stdin: is not a tty

Sounds like you've put some command like resize or tset or stty or
something that wants a terminal in your (or root's) shell profile.

If you do "stty erase ^H" or something in your .bash*, then put it
inside

$TTY = `tty`  # do this once---it'll probably be tested more than once.
if [ "$TTY" != "not a tty" ] ; then stty $etc ; fi[1]

cjb.

[1] actual code may vary. YMMV. HAND.

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