From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-21custom i686) Description of problem: The fam daemon leaves behind socket files of the form /tmp/.fam*. Over time a great many such files will litter /tmp. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login to a system using fam that has been up for a while 2.ls -l /tmp/.fam* Actual Results: You will see lots of .fam* files, most of them inactive. Expected Results: Only a few active socket files should be found. Additional info: It is not a good idea to simply remove .fam* files that are older than X days since somebody could be logged in for a long time and have legit .fam* files that are old. A potential fix is to run the following cleanup script from cron on, say a weekly or daily basis: /usr/bin/find /tmp -name '.fam*' -type s | while read file; do if ! /sbin/fuser -s $file; then /bin/rm -f $file fi done
This was fixed in 2.6.7-4. It now removes the temporary files in a more robust way.