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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inappropriate ioctl for device Post 81073 by RishiPahuja on Tuesday 16th of August 2005 08:12:12 AM
Old 08-16-2005
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Originally Posted by Perderabo
You are doing something in your script directly or indirectly that does indeed require a tty, but it is not a read nor a write. Put some echo statement in your script "echo at point 1", "echo at point 2", etc until you see the statement that fails.
Thanks Perderabo for going over the question.
As the code exists in production and we cannot change code without lots of approvals.

Will like to elaborate the problem more clearly see if you can help.


We have a script say run_job.ksh which is executed from a scheduler.
This scripts calls a C executable, which itself invokes sort command.

The snippet of the code calling sort command is like this:

Code:
 sprintf(tmpSortFileName, "/tmp/temp%s", "tempIRBPAVAInputFile");
 
    /* Sort by carrier ID, company #, bill to RAO, statement date, BTN, ??? */
    sprintf(sortcmd,
             "sort -k 1.132,1.135 -k 1.118,1.119 -k 1.118,1.119 "\
                  "-k 1.112,1.114 -k 1.104,1.111 -k 1.142,1.151 "\
                  "-k 1.155,1.162 %s > %s", inputFileName, tmpSortFileName);
    system(sortcmd);
 
    if(errno)
    {
       fprintf(stderr,
              "Error sorting the input file %s...\nExiting...\n",
                inputFileName);
       exit(ERR);
    }

if same code we execute through a telnet session it succeeds while if we invoke the executable through scheduler we are thrown the error present in "if" condition i.e. Error sorting the input file

This is the sequence of error I receive in scheduler logs:

: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Error sorting the input file /tmp/tempIRBPAVAInputFile...
Exiting...


Any help will be highly appreciated.
 

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