dbus-cleanup-sockets(1) 					   User Commands					   dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       The dbus-cleanup-sockets command cleans up unused D-Bus connection sockets.

       If  given no arguments, dbus-cleanup-sockets cleans up sockets in the standard default socket directory for the per-user-login-session mes-
       sage 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 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.

       See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information.

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.

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 attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdbus			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       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.

       dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by Havoc Pennington from linc-cleanup-sockets written by Michael Meeks.  Documentation	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/

SunOS 5.11							    19 Nov 2007 					   dbus-cleanup-sockets(1)