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Re: Problems with my pipe

Subject: Re: Problems with my pipe
From: inode0
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:24:49 -0600
On 2/8/06, Wally Winchester <wally_winchester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having a problem with my pipe, please can anyone have a look and see
> what's wrong with it?
>
> $ mkfifo testpipe
> $ logger -u testpipe message
> connect: Connection refused.

You are creating a named pipe and then trying to use it as a socket.
You should be able to open it for both reading and writing as a file
though

$ echo message > testpipe

should write message on the pipe and

$ cat testpipe

should read the message for example.

John

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