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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 https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/ for more information about the big picture. If given no arguments, dbus-cleanup-sockets cleans up sockets in the stan- dard 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 corre- sponding 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 https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/ D-Bus 1.16.2 06/11/2026 DBUS-CLEANUP-SOCKE(1)
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