message during tar backup

[Scott Kitterman]

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