Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:33:34PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > don't affect the other process. My only guess is that using tail -f > is making it screwy somehow. Are you killing the tail with ^C ? Maybe > the other process gets a SIGPIPE and for some reason this takes the > gnome-terminal d

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:29:37PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 20:03]: > > > I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. > > > Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a progra

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 23:02 Uhr -0400 28.04.2002, Scott Henson wrote: I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this on a wo

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 00:53]: > On 0, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mkfifo /tmp/datefifo > > > > while : > > do > > echo `date` >> /tmp/datefifo > > done > > > > Then, see what happens when you cat /tmp/datefifo in another console. > > (Try it a few times.) > > I

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 20:03]: > > I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. > > Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the > > file. It will only be reading said file not ex

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 20:03]: > I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. > Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the > file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have > any ideas on how to do this

dynamically generated files

2002-04-28 Thread Scott Henson
I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this on a woody system with ext3 fs? Thanks -- -Peace kid Sc