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From: cdp@hertz.njit.edu (Chris Peckham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: inetd.conf and perl
Summary: I found my problem
Keywords: inetd, perl, sh script...
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Date: 25 Jan 91 16:52:07 GMT
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In article <2141@njitgw.njit.edu> cdp@hertz.njit.edu (Chris Peckham) writes:
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>I have a question that I hope is easy to answer :-)
>
>If I run the perl script interactively by just starting it up, all is well and
>everything works as it should.
>If I attempt to run the perl script by using a telnet command as above and
>inetd starts it up, errors are returned in the debug mode as below:

I forgot to flush the output buffers with $|

As the man page says, "When you want your pipes to be piping hot !"

Oh well... I guess I need to read the manual some more :-)