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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Sockets in /dev: what are they? how to recreate them?
Message-ID: <22187@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:21:47 GMT
References: <smw.676144715@alcor>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <smw.676144715@alcor> smw@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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