Sockets in /dev: what are they? how to recreate them?
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Thu Jun 6 06:21:47 AEST 1991
In article <smw.676144715 at alcor> smw at alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
>
> Being fortunate enough to have "spare" partition on one of our disks,
> I'm backing up my root partition (on a DECsystem 5500 under Ultrix 4.1)
> to disk, using afio (since the Ultrix cpio is broken, but that's
> another story).
>
> My question concerns the following three items in /dev:
>
> /root.bak/dev/snmp
> /root.bak/dev/elcscntlsckt
> /root.bak/dev/printer
>
> These are all sockets, and I can't copy them using afio/cpio or tar.
They are dynamically created by the programs / function that use them,
so there is no need to worry about backing them up. As far as what
they're for, /dev/printer is used by /etc/lpd and documented in the
lpd man page. The others are for error logging and I guess SNMP network
magnagment daemons.
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