No problem -- This is classic example of "Explain To To the Dog" (or
teddy-bear or octopus or (insert stuffed toy or pet here)). You bat
your head against your problem for a couple of hours and get nowhere.
When I try to explain what I am doing to the Dog, he looks skeptical,
so I have to explai
Harry Putnam writes:
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> But the data is actually being written into the script. Egad... that
> seems pretty crazy. When I start the script with `./flt' it does not
> write to any files... or to stdout, instead the data is coming through
> the named-pipe and being written into the script file.
I wrote a quick filter for system-log output but must have done
something really dumb because syslog is writing to the script (through
a named-pipe).
This is on opensolaris... The system logger syslog.conf file doesn't
allow the use of a pipe symbol like can be done on linux OS's, for
sending sysl