| Emeric Vigier | 2f62582 | 2012-08-06 11:09:52 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .\" |
| 2 | .\" dbus-cleanup-sockets manual page. |
| 3 | .\" Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. |
| 4 | .\" |
| 5 | .TH dbus-cleanup-sockets 1 |
| 6 | .SH NAME |
| 7 | dbus-cleanup-sockets \- clean up leftover sockets in a directory |
| 8 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 9 | .PP |
| 10 | .B dbus-cleanup-sockets [DIRECTORY] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The \fIdbus-cleanup-sockets\fP command cleans up unused D-Bus |
| 15 | connection sockets. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for |
| 16 | more information about the big picture. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | .PP |
| 19 | If given no arguments, \fIdbus-cleanup-sockets\fP cleans up sockets |
| 20 | in the standard default socket directory for the |
| 21 | per-user-login-session message bus; this is usually /tmp. |
| 22 | Optionally, you can pass a different directory on the command line. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | .PP |
| 25 | On Linux, this program is essentially useless, because D-Bus defaults |
| 26 | to using "abstract sockets" that exist only in memory and don't have a |
| 27 | corresponding file in /tmp. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | .PP |
| 30 | On most other flavors of UNIX, it's possible for the socket files to |
| 31 | leak when programs using D-Bus exit abnormally or without closing |
| 32 | their D-Bus connections. Thus, it might be interesting to run |
| 33 | dbus-cleanup-sockets in a cron job to mop up any leaked sockets. |
| 34 | Or you can just ignore the leaked sockets, they aren't really hurting |
| 35 | anything, other than cluttering the output of "ls /tmp" |
| 36 | |
| 37 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 38 | dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by Havoc Pennington from |
| 39 | linc-cleanup-sockets written by Michael Meeks. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | .SH BUGS |
| 42 | Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, |
| 43 | see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ |