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User Commands                             dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)



NAME
     dbus-cleanup-sockets - clean up leftover sockets in a direc-
     tory

SYNOPSIS
     dbus-cleanup-sockets [--help] [--version] [directory]

DESCRIPTION
     The dbus-cleanup-sockets command cleans up unused D-Bus con-
     nection sockets.

     If given no arguments, dbus-cleanup-sockets cleans up  sock-
     ets  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 com-
     mand line.

     On Linux, this program is essentially useless, because D-Bus
     defaults  to  using  "abstract  sockets"  that exist only in
     memory and do not have a corresponding file in /tmp.

     On most other flavors of UNIX, it is 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
     clean up any leaked sockets.  Or you  can  just  ignore  the
     leaked  sockets, they are not really hurting anything, other
     than cluttering the /tmp directory.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     --help

         Show help information on standard output and exit.



     --version

         Print the version of dbus-cleanup-sockets



OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     directory       Clean up sockets in the specified  directory
                     rather than the default socket directory.






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EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0        Application exited successfully



     >0       Application exited with failure



FILES
     The following files are used by this application:

     /usr/bin/dbus-cleanup-sockets   Executable     for     dbus-
                                     cleanup-sockets



     /tmp                            Default location  for  D-Bus
                                     connection sockets



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | system/library/dbus         |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface stability         | Volatile                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     More information can be found at:

     http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/

     dbus-binding-tool(1), dbus-daemon(1), dbus-launch(1),  dbus-
     monitor(1),   dbus-send(1),  dbus-uuidgen(1),  libdbus-glib-
     1(3), attributes(5)

NOTES
     For       authorship       information       refer        to
     http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/doc/AUTHORS.
     Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.





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     dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by  Havoc  Pennington  from
     linc-cleanup-sockets  written  by Michael Meeks.  Documenta-
     tion updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.

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

















































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