From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: [anvil@gruyere /tmp/orbit-anvil]# ls -l|wc -l 824 [anvil@gruyere ~]# lsof|grep /tmp/orbit|wc -l 131 Most (99%) of theese files are sockets. Some of them are 2 months old. and the box only have a 4 days uptime. [anvil@gruyere ~]# tmpwatch -a 720 /tmp/orbit-anvil [anvil@gruyere ~]# ll /tmp/orbit-anvil|wc -l 372 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ORBit2(0:2.6.0-2).i386 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: I dont know. Additional info: I ask some people on IRC : <Pix> [pix@portable pix]$ ls /tmp/orbit-pix/ <Pix> Display all 1684 possibilities? (y or n) Either this is a bug in ORBit (dont tell me worksform, this is a really stupid worksform), either a tmpwatch bad configuration.
IIRC, tmpwatch doesn't remove sockets at all.
tmpwatch can remove sockets : from man tmpwatch : -a, --all Remove all file types, not just regular files and directories.
You can run linc-cleanup-sockets to clean these up. Maybe we should put that in a cron job.
Or alternately we could make ORBit use abstract socket namespace. Probably for the next release.
I don't think there's any nice way to do the system-wide cronjob, especially with selinux. I think I'll just do a gnome-session hack to run linc-cleanup-sockets on login and logout.
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