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Old 04-28-2006
Error: could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard
hi,
Why do i get an error

"could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard type US keyboard assumed"

wehn i execute the script on my AIX machine.

Just curious to know.
# 2  
Old 05-01-2006
Without knowing what the script looks like, one can only guess.

Are you using dos2unix or similar command in your script?


On non-i386 systems, dos2unix will attempt to obtain the
keyboard type to determine which code page to use. Other-
wise, the default is US. The user may override the code page
with one of the following options:

-437 Use US code page

-850 Use multilingual code page

-860 Use Portuguese code page
# 3  
Old 05-01-2006
Yup.. -437 will work.. I had the same problem sometime back.. and I used -437 to override that message..
# 4  
Old 12-17-2008
jouuu
Thanks, after days of trying to work around the problem I have an answer.
Do any of you notice that as a non-root user, when running unix2dos dos2unix file file vs file > fileA, the ownership is changed to root on "file" but not on fileA.
I thought it odd that the command would change the ownership on the modified file "file". The work around was to redirect to anther file all together hence file $0 file > fileA.
 
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