[comp.emacs] Abnormal behaviour of M-x shell

vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo) (12/15/90)

	When I type M-x shell I get the following message in my
*shell* buffer:

	Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...

and then my shell prompt. This message has one or two unpalatable
consequences. Can anybody tell me what's going on and how to fix the
problem? I have been running shells in Emacs for some time, and this
started to happen just a couple of weeks ago. I am running GNU Emacs
18.55.2 in a Sun 4/490 SunOS 4.1; my login shell is bash, and my Emacs
shell is csh.

	Thanks so much in advance.



JCA
vanadis@cs.dal.ca

vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo) (12/19/90)

	Thanks very much to all those who suggested possible causes of
the problem and fixes thereof. It all boiled down to a missing
/dev/pty*, which my sysadm promptly restored. Thanks a lot.


JCA
vanadis@cs.dal.ca