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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