Re: FVWM: error message: stdin: is not a tty

From: Michael Han <mikehan+fvwm_at_mikehan.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:32:18 -0700

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:07:21AM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
> I am getting the following error message but I don't know why.
>
> [nzanella_at_tulip nzanella]$ cat .xsession-errors
> stdin: is not a tty
>
> Does anyone know what could be causing it?

In all likelihood somewhere in fvwm you're Exec'ing or otherwise
invoking an interactive program in a pipeline. This program doesn't
like receiving its input like this and is complaining. For example,
perhaps something like:

Exec echo foo | pine

might be the cause. I don't actually know what happens if you pipe
data into pine, but it came to mind as an interactive program unlikely
to want input from stdin. HTH,
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Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 23:32:22 BST

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