What’s the difference between /dev/tty.* and /dev/cu.* on macOS?

http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/gpsd-dev/2005-April/001288.html : The idea is to supplement software in sharing a line between incoming and outgoing calls. The callin device (typically /dev/tty*) is used for incoming traffic. Any process trying to open it blocks within the open() call as long as DCD is not asserted by hardware (i.e. as long as the modem doesn’t have … Read more

docker error on windows : the input device is not a TTY. If you are using mintty, try prefixing the command with ‘winpty’ [duplicate]

As suggested by the error message you obtain, you should try to use winpty (which is installed by default with Git-Bash) and thus run: winpty docker run –rm -v “/c/users/vipul rao/documents/github/wappalyzer:/opt/wappalyzer” -it wappalyzer/dev If this works, you may want to set a Bash alias to avoid manually prepending winpty all the time: echo “alias docker=”winpty … Read more

What do pty and tty mean?

tty originally meant “teletype” and “pty” means “pseudo-teletype”. In UNIX, /dev/tty* is any device that acts like a “teletype”, i.e: a terminal. (Called teletype because that’s what we had for terminals in those benighted days.) A pty is a pseudotty, a device entry that acts like a terminal to the process reading and writing there, … Read more

Confused about Docker -t option to Allocate a pseudo-TTY

The -t option goes to how Unix/Linux handles terminal access. In the past, a terminal was a hardline connection, later a modem based connection. These had physical device drivers (they were real pieces of equipment). Once generalized networks came into use, a pseudo-terminal driver was developed. This is because it creates a separation between understanding … Read more

How to fix ‘sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified’ error?

Granting the user to use that command without prompting for password should resolve the problem. First open a shell console and type: sudo visudo Then edit that file to add to the very end: username ALL = NOPASSWD: /fullpath/to/command, /fullpath/to/othercommand eg john ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/start, /sbin/stop will allow user john to sudo poweroff, … Read more