man > dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)

DBUS-CLEANUP-SOCKE(1)                       User Commands                      DBUS-CLEANUP-SOCKE(1)



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

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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