Inappropriate ioctl for device

Shabam · *nix forums beginner Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 13

I copied over user data from a old hard drive to a new one. After that,
whenever I try to run a cgi script, it gives me the error:

Inappropriate ioctl for device

While it's trying to write to a particular file. I look at the file. It's
there, writeable/readable by the cgi. The only way for me to fix this is to
delete the file and recreate it. The same permissions and everything. Now
the error is gone.

What's causing this error and how do I go about fixing it permanently?

Sam · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 143

Shabam wrote:

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