Problems with my pipe

[Andy Green]

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
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