Unix Pipes

[Jonas Arndt]

Hi All,

How do you know what process is using a specific pipe?

We have an issue where a pipe gets filled up without anybody reading from it.

Thanks,

// Jonas

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

This sounds like you are using named pipes. Your best bet is to use the lsof. You can download it from:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.61/

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

For named Pipes, you can use fuser command to find the pid and hence the corresponding process.

-Sri

[George Abraham_1]

hai

lsof is a good utility.. i found it very useful...

keep smiling
george

[Jonas Arndt]

Hi Everybody

Thank you for all the suggestions. I tried fuser, and it worked. lsof gave much more info, but we couldn't use it on the customers system, as they didn't have FTP enabled

Thanks again,

// Jonas