1:dbus-cleanup-sockets

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      dbus-cleanup-sockets - clean up leftover sockets in a directory
      
      dbus-cleanup-sockets [DIRECTORY]

DESCRIPTION

      The  dbus-cleanup-sockets command cleans up unused D-Bus connection sockets. See http://www.freedesktop.org/soft-
      ware/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 abnor-
      mally 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"

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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