message during tar backup

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Tue Oct 17 17:46:34 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 13:39, John Dangler wrote:
> > I was backing up my server this afternoon using a simple tar command,
> > and got this message -
> > tar: /var/lib/dcc/dccifd: socket ignored
> >
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to what this means?
> 
> It means that one of the 'files' you were trying to tar was actually a pointer 
> to a socket and so Tar ignored that 'file', since it wasn't a file object 
> that could be added to the tarball.
> 
> Scott K
> 
Thanks, Scott.  I'll have to tweak my excludes file a bit






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