From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 20:33: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from windmill-en0.garlic.com (windmill-en0.garlic.com [208.195.160.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AEF37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from blah (130.sm7.dialup.garlic.net [216.139.3.130]) by windmill-en0.garlic.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1D4X1P65366 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:33:02 -0800 From: "Remington" To: Subject: Named Pipes? Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:33:10 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c1b447$939c8270$82038bd8@blah> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Im reading a book on shell scripting. I came acroos something on named pipes. "you can create special devise devices called named pipes... Named pipe is a permanent pipe device that exists until it is remived... named pipes can accept imput from any connamds that write to them. And then it goes on telling me on how to creat one by using mknod #mknod LOG p This doesn't work. Essentialy I want to create one and put in the following: #log < LOG while TRUE do read line echo `date+'%H$M%S'` $line ?? /usr/local/logfile done > LOG How would I accomplish creating a nemed pipe? Windows, not worth the CD its burned on. -Remington To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message