Re: location of Unix socket

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:49:43PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> [001117 16:41] wrote:
> > At present the Unix socket's location is hard-coded as /tmp.
> >
> > As a result of a bug report, I have moved it in the Debian package to
> > /var/run/postgresql/. (The bug was that tmpreaper was deleting it and
> > thus blocking new connections.)
> >
> > I suppose that we cannot assume that /var/run exists across all target
> > systems, so could the socket location be made a configurable parameter
> > in 7.1?
>
> What about X sockets and ssh-agent sockets, and so on?
> Where's the source to this thing? :)
>
> It would make more sense to fix tempreaper to ignore non regular
> files.

X sockets are in subdirectories, e.g. /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.
/tmp is a bad place for this stuff anyway.

Nathan Myers
ncm(at)zembu(dot)com