[Lxc-users] lxc unix socket, what is it for?

arkaitzj at gmail.com arkaitzj at gmail.com
Wed May 18 16:17:17 UTC 2011


Yeah, it is an abstract socket, but what is it for?

Thanks
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Arkaitz


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at extof.me>wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:16 AM, arkaitzj at gmail.com <arkaitzj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm working with a setup where I store my containers in a place different
> > than /var/lib/lxc/ and I have no issue working with them.
> > However, looking at lxc-ls implementation I noticed there is a unix
> socket
> > created at the /var/lib/lxc location:
> >
> > unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4573
> > @/var/lib/lxc/node01/command
> >
> > What is this for? is it required for anything basic I'm overlooking here?
> In
> > that case, any way I can change that dir to where I store my vms? looking
> at
> > the source code it doesn't look like.
>
> isn't that an abstract socket?  it shouldn't actually exist on the FS ...
>
> C Anthony
>
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