[Courses] [FS] a socket + finger question

[Laurel Fan]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:59:51PM -0400, Madhavan, Srivatsan wrote:
> I replaced the .plan file with a named pipe called .plan,
> and set up a background process whose job was to pick
> a new fortune cookie each time and write it to .plan.
> 
> My idea was that everytime somebody finger'ed me, they'd
> get a new fortune cookie too. But it didn't work. finger 
> behaved as if there was no .plan file at all. Any clue why ? 

One thing to check.  Is your home directory on a network filesystem,
such as nfs?  If you can access your home directory from many
different machines, it probably is.  Named pipes do not work on most
network filesystems.

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