[GRASSLIST:2422] Re: problem selecting x0

[Glynn Clements]

Aurelien wrote:

> Trying to debut in grass, I'd want to start a monitor (I think that's 
> mandatory if I want to see anything on-screen, isn't it ?).
> 
> So I did d.mon, then selected x0 as a monitor to start.
> 
> First, grass told me that /usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.1a wasn't 
> available, so I checked into /usr/localgrass5/etc/monitorcap, where I 
> saw that a [...]/fifo.1b was also needed. I tried again, without 
> success, then I created manually 2 empty files named fifo.1a and fifo.1b 
> in /usr/local/grass5/dev, but now the message is:
> 
> Sorry, </usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.1a> is not a fifo file.
> 
> What is a fifo file ???

Also called a "named pipe"; created with "mknod <name> p". There
should be a script called create_fifos.sh in $GISDBASE/dev to create
these.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>