I am replacing my samba 4.1.9 with version 4.1.14. While tarring my /usr/local/samba in preparation for this I got a number of message about not being able to backup a socket. So I switched and used pax to create the tar archive. I got the same message in addition to the message about not backing up the socket I get messages like this: pax: ustar header field is too small for ./var/locks/sysvol/ ad.heritageacademyaz.com/Policies/{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}/GPT.INI So my question is -- 1) can the socket file be safely erase I did see the following diff --git a/source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup b/source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup index 75ebec6..e34981e 100755 --- a/source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup +++ b/source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ cd $FROMWHERE for d in $DIRS;do relativedirname=`find . -type d -name "$d" -prune` n=`echo $d | sed 's/\//_/g'` + + # remove all sockets + find $relativedirname -type s -exec rm {} \; which I assume implies that it is safe to remove but I just wanted to verify. And if anyone is using pax to create archive, a second question (yes, I know I'm over quota and this isn't a pax support list) would be is the message about header filed being too small important ? Should I be worried about it? -- David Bear mobile: (602) 903-6476