Re: Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

You're getting ENOTTY from the system. The error may be yours, or the ISP's httpd may be misconfigured, but nobody can guess which until we see your code. Look for a statement printing or warning or die-ing with arguments ('Who are you?: ', $!).

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2005 at 12:47 UTC
They're most likely calling something else (via `system` or some variant of `qx//`) which expects to be run from a tty. Given the particular error message `passwd` would be my guess presuming some flavour of Linux. And given that they don't know enough about *NIX to know that `passwd` is going to try to read from its TTY rather than stdin they probably don't want to be writing a web sysadmin interface . . . -- We're looking for people in ATL	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2005 at 22:21 UTC
I shouldn't have said nobody can guess; yours sounds very likely. OP should not try to set up system accounts for http authentication. ++Fletch for nailing what was bothering me about the question. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]