I saw this same error message on 1.6R doing a shutdown
from an ssh session (after "su root -").

GZ
--- "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> wrote:
> Running shutdown from an rlogin session (after "su
> root") shows:
> 
> 	wall: /dev/ttyp1: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> The session was logged in on ttyp1.
> 
> Is this because without '-D' shutdown detached from
> the tty and was
> running in the background?
> 
> -- 
> 								Greg A. Woods
> 
> +1 416 218-0098;            <g.a.woods@ieee.org>;   
>        <woods@robohack.ca>
> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; VE3TCP; Secrets of
> the Weird <woods@weird.com>


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Gordon Zaft
zaft@zaft.org

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