On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:04:21 +0000, "Andy Green" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Wally Winchester wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with my pipe, please can anyone have a look and see > > what's wrong with it? > > Ugh! It's all diseased... you must have stuck it in a Windows box. Put > it away! > > > $ mkfifo testpipe > > $ logger -u testpipe message > > connect: Connection refused. > > > > Same when run as root. > > If in one console session I do > > cat testpipe > > whick blocks, and then in another > > echo "hello" >testpipe > > then everything works. So I guess the problem is only that you have > nobody listening at the other end of the pipe? > > -Andy Well, I can see that syslog-ng has hold of my pipe, so I'm confused as to why logger cannot do anything useful with it. echo "test" > testpipe works fine logger -u testpipe "test" fails :/ -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web
