Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!Urd!newsuser From: perf@efd.lth.se (Per Foreby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Named pipes on NFS file system? Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 89 10:03:52 GMT References: <7534@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Distribution: comp Organization: EFD, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden Lines: 28 In-reply-to: grr@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 3 Aug 89 16:29:21 GMT In article <7534@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >> Running Ultrix 3.0 on Mvax II and VS2000. >> >> Named pipes doesn`t work on NFS file systems. > Did this happen only between the Vax systems and the Suns? It was > easy to duplicate between a 785 and Sun 2 an Sun 4 systems, but I > couldn't make it happen between Vaxes. I didn't think of that, but it seems to work between vaxes: 52 perf@mordor$ cd "vax_nfs_directory" 53 perf@mordor$ mknod xx p 54 perf@mordor$ file xx xx: port (named pipe > I reported the problem to the support center... Thanx! -- Per Foreby System manager at EFD, Lund Institute of Technology (Lund University) Snail: E-huset, Tekniska Hogskolan i Lund, Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden. Email: perf@efd.lth.se Phone: int + 46 46-10 74 92