Hey guys, messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post, #!/bin/bash mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo while true do while read -t 5 data <&42 do echo "data is ($data)" done echo "read again" done What happens to this to invalidate the initial 'true' condition, it only runs for a short while? Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos