problem with installing grass5beta6H

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 01:50:07AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:39:33AM +0100, Le Jeune Yann wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have some problems during the install phase of the grass5beta6. 
> > The shell freeze during the "Creating the monitor fifos...".
> > I  have only 3 files in /usr/local/grass-5.0b/dev/ :
> > create_fifoss.sh
> > create_fifos_new.sh
> > fifo.0a
> > Does someone has a clue ? 
> > My system is :
> > linux mandrake gold 2000 on a 
> > pII450,128mo,atiragefury, scsi
> 
> You probably got bit by the `touch bug'. Just go into create_fifos.sh
> and comment out those `touch  fifo*' lines. Or add the '-c' flag.

Hi all,

the touch statement is commented now in 
src/scripts/shells/create_fifos.sh.in

Even I do not know why it was there... It seems to work
without "touch".
If anyone has problems with GRASS monitors when touch was commented
on fifo creation, please let me know.

Regards

 Markus Neteler