From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 23:58: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E8F37B41C for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020213075757.QJVP2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:57:57 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1D7vuA31119; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Remington Cc: "'Ruben de Groot'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Named Pipes? Message-ID: <20020212235756.F29413@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <008101c1b459$257e2e80$0801a8c0@lan.1729.net> <000001c1b462$a6d0c8e0$82038bd8@blah> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c1b462$a6d0c8e0$82038bd8@blah>; from madriax@garlic.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:47:00PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:47:00PM -0800, Remington wrote: > OK I tried mkfifo -m LOG and my /root directory. It created it find but > when I edit it on vi it wont save the changes("Warning: LOG is not a > regular file; LOG: unmodified, UNLOCKED: line 1") how would I go around > thins? Uh... Why are you trying to edit it? It's a pipe. You pipe stuff through it. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message