Stephen Meatheringham, on July 4. 2000, wrote:
: I have just upgraded from ssh 1.something to 2.2.0 on my Sun unix machines
: (Solaris 7). I have a script which runs by hand with no worries, however, it
: gives me errors when run via cron - simply because I don't have a tty attached.
:
: For example, doing "ssh user@remote host /bin/w -u" gives the output as:
: You have no controlling terminal.Can't initialize readline for confirmations.
: 11:08am up 15 day(s), 2:24, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.12, 0.08
:
: The error is coming from ssh2.c where it tries to open /dev/tty and fails.
: Looking at the ssh man pages I thought adding a "-t" would allocate a tty.
: But no luck there. Apart from hacking the source code to comment out that test
: does anyone have any suggestions?
Try to give the ssh2 the '-o "BatchMode yes"' commandline
parameter. This should disable all tty-checking.
Like this:
% ssh -o "BatchMode yes" user@remote host /bin/w -u
Regards,
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