stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket

Cause

This message occurs when a user tries to use remote copy with rcp(1) or remote shell with rsh(1) from one machine to another, but has an stty(1) command in the remote .cshrc file. This error creates failure for the rcp(1) or rsh(1) command.

Action

The solution is to move the invocation of the stty(1) command to the user's .login (or equivalent) file. Alternatively, execute the stty(1) command in .cshrc only when the shell is interactive. You could perform the following test:

if ($?prompt) stty ...

Technical Notes

The rcp(1) and rsh(1) commands make a connection using sockets, which do not support stty(1)'s TCGETS ioctl.