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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!rrz.uni-koeln.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3 (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: What is filetype "socket link" ? Date: 9 Dec 92 07:33:56 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 23 Message-ID: <veit.723886436@du9ds3> References: <JOCHEN.92Dec6102037@busybit.mrz.sub.org> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de In <JOCHEN.92Dec6102037@busybit.mrz.sub.org> jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner) writes: >In 386BSD there is a file /dev/log with filetype "socket link" >(octal filetype 0140666). >Neither cpio nor tar can handle this filetype. >Can someone explain what this file type is, and what this file >/dev/log is good for ? >Jochen >-- >Jochen Fahrner, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen, jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org It is a kind of 'named pipe', and filled by the syslog(3) call and read by the syslog daemon. It is used to pass error messages from a user process to the system logger. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"