My reply to Bill's question went directly to him. I am forwarding it to the list.
Tom Shilson Powered by Penguins Unix Team / IT Server Services Tel: 651-733-7591 tshilson at mmm dot com Fax: 651-736-7689 ----- Forwarded by Tom H. Shilson/US-Corporate/3M/US on 05/01/2007 09:18 AM ----- Tom H. Shilson/US-Corporate/3M/US 05/01/2007 09:10 AM To Bill Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: Strange file type cannot be moved with scp or ftp Off the top of my head, I think this is a FIFO pipe. (There may also be LIFO pipes, but I am not sure.) It is a staging device of a sort. Application 1 will write to the pipe when it is ready. Application 2 will read the data at its leisure. When FTP tries to read the pipe it waits for some other application to write to the pipe. Unless some other application writes an end-of-file to the pipe, FTP will never end. Don't try to FTP it. Application 1 on the new system may build the pipe there. If not, you can manually build it. Tom Shilson Powered by Penguins Unix Team / IT Server Services Tel: 651-733-7591 tshilson at mmm dot com Fax: 651-736-7689 Bill Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 05/01/2007 08:13 AM Please respond to Bill Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [email protected] cc Subject Strange file type cannot be moved with scp or ftp I am trying to move some files from one linux(Redhat if it matters) to another and both scp and ftp are hanging on a strange file type. I can't find any reference to what this file type is but since it has a size of 0 I am thinking I can just ignore it. Does anyone know what this might be? | V prw-r--r-- 1 10000 10000 0 Feb 3 23:46 PIPE.dmp -- Bill Dodge email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (703)627-2455 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." Lewis Carroll "If you don't know where you are, a map won't help" Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
