1dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)     General Commands Manual    dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)
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NAME

6       dbus-cleanup-sockets - clean up leftover sockets in a directory
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SYNOPSIS

9       dbus-cleanup-sockets [DIRECTORY]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The  dbus-cleanup-sockets  command  cleans  up  unused D-Bus connection
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18       If  given  no  arguments, dbus-cleanup-sockets cleans up sockets in the
19       standard default socket directory for the  per-user-login-session  mes‐
20       sage  bus;  this is usually /tmp.  Optionally, you can pass a different
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24       On Linux, this program is essentially useless, because  D-Bus  defaults
25       to  using "abstract sockets" that exist only in memory and don't have a
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29       On most other flavors of UNIX, it's possible for the  socket  files  to
30       leak when programs using D-Bus exit abnormally or without closing their
31       D-Bus connections. Thus, it might be interesting to  run  dbus-cleanup-
32       sockets  in  a  cron job to mop up any leaked sockets.  Or you can just
33       ignore the leaked sockets, they aren't really hurting  anything,  other
34       than cluttering the output of "ls /tmp"
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AUTHOR

38       dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by Havoc Pennington from linc-cleanup-
39       sockets written by Michael Meeks.
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BUGS

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