Persistent connection to named pipe

[Michael ODonnell]

>> Interestingly, I'd played around with FIFOs some time ago, and
>> there's a fine way to cheat: "tail -f".
>
>D'oh!!!

It might be coming back to me now, why I didn't use the "tail -f"
trick Way Back When; although it appears to work as expected with
a FIFO on a CentOS5.4 box I have yet to see any output when used
on the RHEL3 system where I actually need to do the filtering.
Fortunately, Kevin's approach is working there...