From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 11:49:18 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 11:49:16 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DB037B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:49:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1DA7717422; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:49:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:49:09 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sockets in /tmp Message-ID: <20001208134909.A815@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: chris@nbrewer.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to move /tmp from the root filesystem to a different (larger) filesystem. But /tmp is filled with WEIRD FILES put there by XFree86. I think these are Unix domain sockets; they have permissions like: srwxrwxrwx (I call them 'weird files' because I've never seen them before, not because they are weird, per se.) XFree86 fails to load (it destroys the keyboard/display) if I mv /tmp to /tmp.old. It loads properly when I move /tmp back. I *cannot* mv /tmp to a different filesystem because I get an "Operation not permitted" on all of the sockets. Why are these files persistent? Can they be moved? Shouldn't XFree86 successfully recreate them when I startx? As you can see, maybe I haven't even honed in on the proper questions... -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message