Re: [rdiff-backup-users] AF_UNIX path too long

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Troels Arvin wrote:

> What could be wrong?

rdiff-backup is attempting to create a socket in the mirror hierarchy to
be a place holder for the socket on the primary server.

AF_UNIX socket filenames are traditionally limited to some pitifully short
length.  it's whatever can fit in a struct sockaddr_un -- 108 chars in my
linux headers, shorter on other systems i believe.

and since your mirror hierarchy has some extra path info at the start of
the filename you're exceeding this limit.

you can probably work around it by excluding the socket from your
backup... most daemons which use AF_UNIX will recreate the socket when
they're restarted.

-dean