dbus-cleanup-sockets (1)
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Title: dbus-cleanup-sockets Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> Manual: User Commands Source: D-Bus 1.10.22 Language: English
NAME
dbus-cleanup-sockets - clean up leftover sockets in a directorySYNOPSIS
- dbus-cleanup-sockets [DIRECTORY]
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DESCRIPTION
If given no arguments, dbus-cleanup-sockets cleans up sockets in the standard default socket directory for the per-user-login-session message bus; this is usually /tmp. Optionally, you can pass a different directory on the command line.
On Linux, this program is essentially useless, because D-Bus defaults to using "abstract sockets" that exist only in memory and don't have a corresponding file in /tmp.
On most other flavors of UNIX, it's possible for the socket files to leak when programs using D-Bus exit abnormally or without closing their D-Bus connections. Thus, it might be interesting to run dbus-cleanup-sockets in a cron job to mop up any leaked sockets. Or you can just ignore the leaked sockets, they aren't really hurting anything, other than cluttering the output of "ls /tmp"
AUTHOR
dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by Havoc Pennington from linc-cleanup-sockets written by Michael Meeks.
BUGS
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