From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.8 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.11 9000/785) Description of problem: Rdist fails to replicate named pipe files. It prints an error message 'unkown file type'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use rdist to try to replicate a named pipe (created by 'mknod <name> p') 2. 3. Actual Results: An error message is printed Expected Results: Named pipe should be replicated. Additional info:
As the error message clearly prints, rdist is not capable of replicating named pipes as it can't cope with those files. Read ya, Phil