Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!daily-planet.concordia.ca!alcor!smw From: smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Sockets in /dev: what are they? how to recreate them? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 17:58:35 GMT Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca Lines: 30 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. That's all I know about them. Obviously I'd like to know what's happening here. What are these files? How are they created? Can I back them up? If not, can I recreate them in my spare partition? Thanks in advance, - Steven ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Winikoff smw@alcor.concordia.ca Software Analyst Dept. of Computing Services Concordia University voice: (514) 848-7619 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10:00-18:00 EST)