home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:9278 comp.unix.programmer:3843
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv1!watmath!neumann.waterloo.edu!cpshelle
- From: cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley)
- Subject: Re: Making ``.plan'' EXECUTE a Program ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.124403.18751@math.waterloo.edu>
- Sender: news@math.waterloo.edu (News Owner)
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul22.062254.21368@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:44:03 GMT
- Lines: 28
-
- spencer@burn.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- > Until, of course, the system reboots, in which case your writer process
- > will die (unless you can persuade your sysadmin to stick it in the
- > startup processes), or if someone fingers you on another machine that
- > mounts your home directory (named pipes don't seem to work too well over
- > NFS if the reader and writer are on different machines).
-
- I have a piped .plan file, and a cron job that wakes up every morning
- to restart it if it's busted.
-
- > Useless blathering: I don't think this belonged in comp.unix.wizards so
- > I have removed it from the Newsgroups: line. The question is also
- > dangerously close to being a FAQ (the FAQ answers the "How do I find out
- > who is fingering me" which mentions the named pipe hack)
-
- It *is* in the "unix-faq" file, question 9. Check out "news.answers"
- for a copy (anyone who wants it that is). There was a program to
- construct a named pipe .plan posted in alt.sources a while back, so
- check out the archive in wuarchive.wustl.edu (or elsewhere) for
- article "4618.Z". I don't have the source so please don't ask me for
- it...
-
- </dev/cam
- --
- Cameron Shelley | "Syllogism, n. A logical formula consisting
- cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu| of a major and a minor assumption and an
- Davis Centre Rm 2136 | inconsequent."
- Phone (519) 885-1211 x3390 | Ambrose Bierce
-