mesg: ttyname failed: no such device

Question

Im working on LFS, and I finished the process of compiling, and came to the part of entering the cheroot Environment, with the code provide.

But I’m getting this error:mesg: ttyname failed: no such device

How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

There is a mesg n command in you /root/.profile or so. Just comment it out or ensure it is run only if running on a tty with test -t 0 && mesg n.