>You don't say what the app is written in but I ran into this with perl. >perl apps can either be line buffered or character buffered ($| if I >remember right is the switch). Line buffered means the buffer is not >delivered until a newline character is received. If nothing else, try >"<char>\n" and see if that gets consistently delivered. That is the funny thing also - that character I'm waiting on is a CR. My program is written in C. vmtoolsd is running. Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos