Bug 550176 – app-admin/restart_services: stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robin Lutz 2015-05-22 14:25:28 UTC]

I run 

  restart_services -l --no-color

as a cron job at night using vixie-cron.

Problem is, that somehow in the vixie-cron environment the command

  stty icanon echo echok

in the function clean_exit() results in the output

stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I am not 100% sure, what this command does (I guess it cleans the terminal in case something goes wrong with coloring).

I am using the newest version of restart_services in portage (0.11.0) and '/bin/bash' as the vixie-cron shell.

[Comment 1 Robin Lutz 2015-05-22 14:28:07 UTC]

Does this make sense? It's a check, whether the shell is interactive.

function clean_exit() {
    case $- in
        *i*) stty icanon echo echok ;;
    esac
}

[Comment 2 Marc Schiffbauer 2015-08-03 13:16:44 UTC]

Sorry for the delay and  many thanks for your report. I will have a look soon.

[Comment 3 Marc Schiffbauer 2015-08-19 21:50:38 UTC]

Fixed upstream. Please reopen if new version 0.12.0 does not solve it for you. And thanks again for reporting!

[Comment 4 Robin Lutz 2015-11-13 10:14:31 UTC]

I recently updated to the latest version 0.13.0-r1 (which of course overwrites my changes) and the errors are back again. Your solution somehow does not work for execution through vixie-cron.

[Comment 5 Marc Schiffbauer 2015-12-07 02:03:03 UTC]

Should be fixed in 0.13.1, at least with my cronie I could reproduce it and now its fixed. Thanks for using restart_services ;)