SUMMARY how to copy a socket

From: Suchomski, Gottfried <Gottfried.Suchomski_at_simac.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:57:28 +0100

Hi Fellow-admins,

you are great out there. Just minutes after posting the question, I got
a lot of helpful answers.

Thanks to
Lucio Chiappetti
Dennis Voetelink
Nikola Milutinovic
Joerg Bruehe etc.

In summary, I was told that the socket will be
created on restart of the X-Server.

I have tried Dennis' Voetelink's suggestion (similar with all others):

(In single-user mode):

mv tmp /tmp2

ln -s /path_to/tmp2 /tmp

reboot the system.

After reboot you may remove the /tmp2 directory and its contents. The
socket will be automatically created after system startup.


My original question:

> Dear fellow-admins,
>
> due to diskspace-problems, I have to move e /tmp -directory to some
> other place. What I try to do is to set a link on the /tmp-directory
> to the new directory and copy the contents of the /tmp to the
> new directory. Unfortunately, the copy-operation is not supported
> for sockets.
>
> What do I have to do, to get the /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 (the socket) to
> the new directory? If i can't do that, what would be the solution
> for that roblem?
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
Received on Wed Mar 14 2001 - 10:58:00 NZDT

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