From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 00:23:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9711065684 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 00:23:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7E28FC1E for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 00:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080519002323.SUOR25509.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Sun, 18 May 2008 20:23:23 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id TCPN1Z00E4iy4EG02CPNpS; Sun, 18 May 2008 20:23:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:25:30 -0500 To: "Jonathan Chen" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080518225904.GA61569@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080518225904.GA61569@osiris.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.27 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvfs-* directories in /var/tmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 00:23:25 -0000 On Sun, 18 May 2008 17:59:04 -0500, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the latest version GNOME, and I'm noticing that there are > a lot of dead(?) directories in /var/tmp that look like > gvfs-${username}-randomstring, which contain a named-pipe named > socket2 in them. Are these intended? The base-systems tmp cleanup > script do not remove the named-pipds, so I am forced to periodically > remove the directories. This does feel like a hack, though. > > Did I miss something in my installation of GNOME? You didn't miss anything. I have a lot of that gvfs-* in /var/tmp too and clean out once a while. I was to ask about it in past, but I forgot to do it. # ls -l /var/tmp | grep gvfs | wc -l 100 Cheers, Mezz > Cheers. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org