On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Could anyone enlighten me as to what type of file /dev/log is? ls -l > gives the following: > > dixon@rowling:/usr/include/linux$ ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 29 08:54 /dev/log > ^ > Specifically I was wondering what the leading "s" means. It's a socket created by syslogd; daemons which wish to log events write to it. "file /dev/log" and "netstat -a" are your friends ... > Also, how would I create a file of this type? AFAIK the only way is via the socket(2) function call (you wouldn't want to create a socket that wasn't actually attached to a process). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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