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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:56 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Remington <madriax@garlic.com>
Cc:        "'Ruben de Groot'" <ruben@1729.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Named Pipes?
Message-ID:  <20020212235756.F29413@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <000001c1b462$a6d0c8e0$82038bd8@blah>; from madriax@garlic.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:47:00PM -0800
References:  <008101c1b459$257e2e80$0801a8c0@lan.1729.net> <000001c1b462$a6d0c8e0$82038bd8@blah>

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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.
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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