On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:23:27 +0000, "Andy Green" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Wally Winchester wrote: > > > 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 :/ > > What does a tail of > > /var/log/audit/audit.log > > have to say? > > -Andy It says nothing. strace shows: connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/testpipe"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fed000 write(1, "connect: Connection refused.\n", 29connect: Connection refused. ) = 29 munmap(0xb7fed000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service