Hi, I went to http://groups.google.com and searched for "SIG PIPE socket" and got a bunch of hits about odd SIG{PIPES} on sockets.

One of the better responses said that you should just set $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE'; as a good precaution. The causes can vary, but one reply said

The kernel will post a SIGPIPE to a process when it writes to a pipe, fifo, or network endpoint that is no longer open for reading. The primary reason for this behavior is to expeditiously terminate processes that write to their stdout stream but do not check the exit status of the write() call. For programs that are well behaved (i.e., those which check the status of calls to write(2)) it is best to simply set SIGPIPE to be ignored.

So maybe your client closes up(goes to sleep?) after a long period of inactivity, maybe you should strobe it every hour with a newline or something.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^5: SIG{'PIPE'} and pipe timeout by zentara
in thread SIG{'PIPE'} and pipe timeout by Marcello

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