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- From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins)
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- Subject: Re: Making ``.plan'' EXECUTE a Program ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.121607.23500@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:16:07 GMT
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- In article <bharat.711752774@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> bharat@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Bharat Shyam) writes:
- >Make your .plan a named pipe. (See "man mknod"). then have a program
- >that writes to it. It will sleep until the finger daemon reads from it,
- >whence your prog will be awakened and the finger daemon will read
- >what your program is writing.
-
- Also, check the finger man page to make sure that it will actually support
- pipes. The version of finger on my system, running Ultrix v4.2 specifically
- ignores any .plan and .project files that is not a regular file (i.e. a named
- pipe or a symbolic/hard link). Here is a sample from the man page here...
-
- The user's .plan or .project file cannot be a link to another file. If
- either of these files is something other than a regular file, it will be
- ignored.
-
- At least on the other Unix system I have access to, Sun OS Unix, it allows
- such things. It it is worth while checking first though....
-
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