On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:10:45PM -0500, Claude Marinier wrote:
> 
> >>From time to time (more frequently of late), dump dies partway through the
> backup script. What does this mean?
> 
> 	DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured

It's trying to prompt you for a tape change, but you're probably running
it from cron or something and there is no controlling terminal to get
input from.