Questions tagged [unix-sockets]
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Sending data to Unix socket failing unless proxied with socat via UDP
I'm trying to debug why data isn't being sent over a Unix Domain Socket.
I have 2 applications which should be communicating over a UDS but aren't.
To test I've done the following:
Using socat, I ...
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Unix Domain Socket bind, reuse address
If I bind() an AF_INET socket (for a TCP connection), then later close() it, next time I run my program, I may have issues, since despite the close(), the kernel can still have the resources ...
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Can one processes have a descriptor that is non-blocking while another process have a descriptor referencing the same file/socket that is blocking?
I am more interested in sockets than regular files, but basically I want to know whether one process can "see" a socket as blocking where another process can see it as non-blocking. I am guessing yes,...
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How many connections can there be between two Unix domain sockets?
From APUE:
17.3 Unique Connections
A server can arrange for unique UNIX domain connections to clients
using the standard bind, listen, and accept functions. Clients
use connect to ...
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Must an application-layer protocol exist for communication between any two programs using sockets?
When any two programs, no matter how simple or complicated, communicate by internet domain sockets (or Unix domain sockets), does it necessarily imply that there is an application-layer protocol ...
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socat - UNIX-LISTEN and TCP-LISTEN in one command
Is it possible, to open a tcp port and a socket with one process/command?
socat UNIX-LISTEN:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock,fork,user=mysql,group=mysql,mode=777 TCP:123.123.123.1:3306
combined with:
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Forward abstract unix socket over SSH?
I've discovered that OpenSSH is capable of forwarding UNIX sockets like this:
ssh -R /var/run/program.sock:/var/run/program.sock
My question is whether this extends to abstract unix sockets too.
I'...
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Detect unix domain socket deletion?
Assume that you have an application that upon startup creates a unix domain socket and starts listening to it.
Then any subsequent instance of the application connects to that socket, passes data to ...
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It is possible to traceroute without touching ICMP?
I often run into a situation where I want to traceroute an IP without root or NET_RAW cap in Linux.
I have attempted to send a UDP packet with a small TTL but no ttl error is emitted at all. It seems ...
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Different order for getsockopt SO_PEERCRED in Linux and OpenBSD
I'm trying to get the Unix socket peer credentials in python.
I am using this piece of code for that:
peercred = conn.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_PEERCRED, struct.calcsize("3i"))
pid, ...
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Listen to specific event types via process netlink connector
I'm authoring a user app that would listen to process events via the process netlink connector.
While listening on the socket, my process spends a lot of time doing busy work because of lots of ...
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Why doesn't `netstat` show Screen client but only Screen server process?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/485290/674
Further down in the netstat output is UNIX sockets:
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State ...
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syslog-ng modification issue for unix socket
I am having issue researching the right way to go about a problem. The problem is the syslog-ng file in the salt master server at the moment only enforces unix-stream as follows:
source s_sys {
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How to prevent a process from writing to the systemd journal?
I am using a third party .NET Core application (a binary distribution used by a VS Code extension) that unfortunately has diagnostic logging enabled with no apparent way to disable it (I did already ...
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How to configure systemd so that PHP can use memcached unix socket?
I'm in the process of upgrading from Ubuntu Server 16.04 to 18.04 and at the same time upgrading from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.
In /etc/memcached.conf I added:
-s /tmp/memcached.sock
-a 666
When I restart ...
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Rsyslog - How to disable udp syslog?
Currently rsyslog is listening on both UDP socket and UNIX socket, as shown below:
[root@machine ~]# netstat -ap | grep rsyslog
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:59018 0.0.0.0:* ...
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Total socket count steadily increasing, tcp/udp sockets steady. Why?
I have a server (Ubuntu 16.04.5) running sockets.io and a few other things.
This server is running about 5 or 6 different python apps and sockets.io. When the server reaches this level of ~6144 ...
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How to avoid forwarding ports?
I am doing UDP socket programming in C. In order to listen to a port, I need to forward ports in my router. My question is how to avoid doing that and still being able to communicate over the internet,...
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How to create a public unix domain socket?
Consider /var/run/acpid.socket. At any point I can connect to it and disconnect from it. Compare that with nc:
$ nc -l -U ./myunixsocket.sock
Ncat: bind to ./myunixsocket.sock: Address already in use....
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ss command: difference between raw and unix sockets
The ss command (from the iproute2 set of tools which comes as a newer alternative to netstat) has in its --help the following options
-0, --packet display PACKET sockets
-t, --tcp ...
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Read GNU screen session without attaching to it
I use GNU screen mostly to run commands that become non-interactive after some initial input.
I do not like navigating output in screen sessions, I feel it is a bit buggy.
Is there a way to access ...
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Does OpenSSH >=7.2 support local-side tilde expansion for remote Unix socket forwarding
I am trying to forward a gpg-agent Unix socket to a remote machine. I have tried the following two versions of the remote forwarding command:
A: ssh -vvv -N -R ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent:~/.gnupg/S.gpg-...
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ssh: channel xx: open failed: connect failed: open failed
I'm running ssh running on macOS to redirect connections to local Unix domain socket to a domain socket on another machine. The command line for ssh call is roughly the following:
$ ssh -nNT -L /var/...
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How can I sniff unix dgram socket without having file path?
From that article, I realized that:
a UNIX domain socket is bound to a file path.
So, I need to sniff DGRAM Unix socket through the socat as mentioned here. But when I try to retrieve the path for ...
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What does x (execute) permission do on unix sockets?
By my experience unprivileged user can not access unix socket he/she does not own without x bit set. What does this bit do exactly? Thanks
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SSH connect to a UNIX socket instead of hostname
Short question:
How do I connect to a local unix socket (~/test.sock) via ssh? This sockets forwards to an actual ssh server. The obvious does not work and I can't find any documentation:
public> ...
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tmux socket api
Is there any way I can control a tmux server and send commands to it like switching to a specific window in a session, or make some queries about the panes through the socket it creates?
I've looked ...
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Is there any rsync option to avoid errors on sockets in the source
I'm trying to back up a user's files on a remote machine, but I can't find any rsync option to avoid errors ...
++ rsync -a --no-D --delete --stats '--exclude=.cache/*' --password-file=a_secret ...
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“Multiplex uid mismatch” when trying to get info from Unix socket
I created a unix socket in order to enable SSH multiplexing for my SSH tunnel. I'm new to unix sockets so I wanted to see what this pseudo-file in my filesystem contains. I've tried using:
nc -U ...
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Shared buffer for user space processes
Currently Im implementing a shared buffer between user space processes. For that, I have a library which opens a client UNIX socket for the client processes to dump events into the server socket. My ...
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same netlink socket for inter-user space process communication and user space-kernel space communication?
Is it possible to use the same netlink socket for kernel - user space process and witin user space process communication??
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Communication between user space and kernel space - AF_netlink + AF_Unix
I am new to IPC and am trying to implement a common buffer between kernel and user space processes. My design will be in such a way,
I will have a library(in user space) where my client socket tries ...
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What values may Linux use for the default unix socket buffer size?
Linux documents the default buffer size for tcp, but not for AF_UNIX ("local") sockets. The value can be read (or written) at runtime.
cat /proc/sys/net/core/[rw]mem_default
Is this value always ...
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Using Unix domain socket for different hosts
Actually, I have software that runs in the ARM-Linux has three apps of mine.I want to run the one certain application in Linux host x86.
The internal components in my ARM-Linux program communicate ...
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Building a Unix socket bridge via TCP
I have two processes (Client and server) that communicate with each other using a Unix socket /tmp/tm.ipc. Both processes (Client and Server) don't support TCP.
Client -> /tmp/tm.ipc -> Server
Now, ...
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sudo netstat -antp not showing PID
i am testing stuff with sockets and i encountered that strange case :
i coded i very simple tcp server in c, i made it block after accept(), just to see what happen when accepting multiple connection ...
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/var/log mounted as a tmpfs failing to get umounted on FreeBSD
I have /var/log mounted as a tmpfs, where log files are synced periodically to the disk by the cron on FreeBSD. The process is done by the rc script.
I am mounting it like:
mount -t tmpfs -o nosuid,...
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OpenSSH not cleaning up the domain socket upon termination
I have a local unix socket tunneled to another unix socket on a remote instance over SSH:
ssh -N -L $HOME/my.sock:/var/run/another.sock
however, when I terminate ssh gracefully (i.e. ctrl+C or ...
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Proxying traffic on local unix to a remote unix socket over SSH
I am trying to have a local Unix domain socket, say, ~/docker.sock. I want it to proxy everything to a remote Unix domain socket running elsewhere over SSH. (You can find a diagram of what I’m trying ...
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Opening daemon specific ports
How can we set firewall inbound rules for specific daemon if it is using random port from range of Ephemeral ports? There is Custom Rule wizard available in Windows. Does LINUX and UNIX has similar ...
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nginx errors with failed (13: permission denied) for socket despite socket permissions being set to 777
I've set permissions on the socket to 777 yet Nginx keeps stating that it's being denied permission to access, and yes I've restarted the server.
Nginx is being started as root (not the best way but ...
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Can't start applications due to “Maximum number of clients reached” error
After some period of time, I'm experiencing problems with starting applications, for example, Viber.
$ /opt/viber/Viber
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'ConfigureDBConnection' is ...
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Why is socket path length limited to a hundred chars?
On Unix systems path names have usually virtually no length limitation (well, 4096 characters on Linux)... except for socket files paths which are limited to around 100 characters (107 characters on ...
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How does Node.js / the cluster module pass new connections from the master / parent process, to child processes?
How exactly does this work under the hood / at the OS level (primarily in Unix implementations / from the perspective of the sockets API)?
The cluster module documentation says:
"the master process ...
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Concurrently reading/writing to the same unix socket?
Is it OK for two or more processes concurrently read/write to the same unix socket?
I've done some testing.
Here's my sock_test.sh, which spawns 50 clients each of which concurrently write 5K ...
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Telephony API alternative for Linux?
Is there is any Telephony API for Linux like we have "Tapi.h" for Windows?
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Find out details of a socket by the socket's path name?
I ran an strace on a client application failure and got something like this:
socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_SEQPACKET|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 3
setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSCRED, [1], 4) = 0
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Can I view file names from zipped tar file without unzip and extracting it?
Can I view file names from zipped tar file without unzip and extracting it? The command tar -tvf will show the file contents with out extracting it. Is it possible with zipped tar file?
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How to replicate data from /dev/log on to multiple rsyslog receivers
I want to run multiple instances of rsyslogd (on different network namespaces [netns]). rsyslogd reads from /dev/log, and once a process reads, the socket is drained and another instance doesn't have ...
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Remote control alarm
I want one of machine have a remote control alarm running that can be triggered by any remote machine. More precisely
Machine A is running the service in the background
Any remote machine B can send ...
