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📛 NAME

dbus-cleanup-sockets — clean up leftover sockets in a directory

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🧹 Clean default socket directory	dbus-cleanup-sockets	Cleans up unused D‑Bus sockets in the standard default directory (usually /tmp)
📂 Clean a specific directory	dbus-cleanup-sockets DIRECTORY	Cleans up sockets in the given directory
⏲️ Run in a cron job	dbus-cleanup-sockets	Periodically mop up leaked sockets (useful on non‑Linux systems)

📋 SYNOPSIS

dbus-cleanup-sockets [DIRECTORY]

📖 DESCRIPTION

The dbus-cleanup-sockets command cleans up unused D‑Bus connection sockets. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about the big picture.

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

Please send bug reports to the D‑Bus mailing list or bug tracker, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/

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D‑Bus 1.12.20                                   DBUS-CLEANUP-SOCKE(1)

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