Questions tagged [tty]
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Cannot login to ssh - stdin: is not a tty
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If you have seen this in the login screen of your server...
stdin: is not a tty
...you know the trouble. Well. I've had the exact same problem on my root server. I tried several things to remount /dev/pts or /dev/tty but nothing worked and I…
Leon Kasko
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ssh command without tty hangs
I'm trying to execute a simple ssh remote command from my local machine to an AWS instance, by running:
ssh -i /my/key.pem ec2-user@ 'ls -l'
When I do this, the command returns with exit code 255 and it leaves a process hanging on the ec2…
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Chroot on Ubuntu 14.04.2 using Jailkit - /dev/pts No such file or directory
For the past few days I've been trying to setup a chroot on my Ubuntu server but I've been running into an issue. I've tried several different methods of setting up a chroot on Ubuntu including just manually setting up folder permissions myself and…
Nadeko Sengoku
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Fedora, ssh and sudo
I have to run a script remotely on several Fedora machines through ssh.
Since the script requires root priviliges, I do:
$ ssh me@remost_host "sudo touch test_sudo" #just a simple example
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
The…
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Recover a not responding ssh server
a machine with a postgres database (which is reponding fine) has a ssh service an nagios nrpe service.
Responds to ping.
Postgres is performing as expected. (apache connects from another host)
Nagios check to port 5432(postgres is ok).
ssh does…
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script reading from new descriptor in read
I have a script that asks some questions to the user and repeats the question until the user has answered something appropiate. This is done with an infinite loop that is break'd when an acceptable answer is read:
while true
do
read -p "Which…
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kvm -monitor pty : how to find out the associated /dev/pts/#num
I have a server running multiple kvms. These are two to three vms so I consider libvirt somewhat oversized for management. And I'm completely comfortable with that setup. I actually just need the kvm monitoring console to send a 'system_powerdown'…
gabriel
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lxc-console only works once
I have a debian-squeeze host-system on which I have installed lxc.
i created a (squeeze) container, and started it. then I'm trying to get inside the container with lxc-console. everything works fine so far.
but the weird thing is, lxc-console only…
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qemu/kvm: connect two machines via ttyS0
I would like to connect two machines via ttyS0
Here's what I did on the guest machines:
A:
Add to /etc/inittab:
S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS0
Add to /etc/securetty:
ttyS0
B:
Try to connect to A
cu -l /dev/ttyS0
Here's what I did on the…
Jens Meier
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Tell NetworkManager to ignore or not probe rfcomm0
I'm trying to remotely connect to a system via Bluetooth but am running into problems. Here's what I'm trying to do...
On the remote device I'd like to have the following running: rfcomm -r watch 0 3 getty -L {} 9600
What that does is: Watch on…
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Remote SSH command via Java program
First of all my Linux knowledge is limited! I'm more a developer, who casually manages some servers :-)
So, I'm operating on a farm of RHEL5/6 (mixed) servers and here is what I want to do: I have a Java program on one master server, which runs…
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How can I give tomcat sudo right
Possible Duplicate:
No TTY present when running commands over SSH in here-document
I installed tomcat7. It is nologin user tomcat7. That said, I need to give tomcat7 sudo rights to run other applications.
I edit sudoer. But requiretty is set,…
chnet
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sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
I am trying to run this bash script as a cron job, but I am getting an error which says
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo. I am running this bash script in amazon EC2 linux instance.
#!/bin/bash -
#get instance id - used for putting…
Jeevan Dongre
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Is there a way to pam_tty_audit on Linux OpenVZ containers?
Looks like pam_tty_audit in Linux (http://www.slashzero.com/2009/11/shell-session-logging/) could have been a great way to help figure out "what happened!" when one gets rooted.
I say "could have been" because the rootkits do clean logs and kill…
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USB To Serial under OpenSuse 11.3
I have a LogiLink USB-To-Serial adapter. This has the PL2303 chip inside. When I insert the device:
[26064.927083] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
[26065.076090] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b,…
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