[CentOS] Centos 7 Install

Fred Smith
2017-08-18T00:05:17Z

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:46:12PM +0100, Pete Biggs
wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 16:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > This is a listing.
> >
> > total 44
> > drwx------ 2 root    root       6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp
> > drwx------ 2 root    root    8192 Aug 17 15:37 lu27063gukci0.tmp
> > drwx------ 2 root    root    8192 Aug 17 15:43 lu3205guot5q.tmp
> > drwx------ 2 root    root    8192 Aug 17 15:48 lu4177guts1n.tmp
> > drwx------ 2 root    root       6 Aug 17 15:36 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
> > drwx------ 3 root    root      16 Aug 17 15:39
> > systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-colord.service-B3EzVm
> > drwx------ 3 root    root      16 Aug 17 15:39
> >
systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-rtkit-daemon.service-Z5MlFp
> > drwx------ 2 root    root        6 Mar  1  2016
tracker-extract-files.1000
> >
> >
> > Its the XXXXXXX.tmp directory that seem to be filling up... They have
.tmp
> > files in the directory.
> >
> > or the tracker-extract-files is also an unknown.
> >
> > What is that? how do I stop it ?
> >
> It's where tracker extracts files.
>
> Google for "centos7 tracker disable"
>
> I suspect the lu*.tmp directories are from when tracker uses LO to
> extract and index documents.
>
> If you don't use, or want to use, tracker, then disable tracker.
>
> P.

Hmm. was unaware of tracker-etc. what are these indexes used for?
I can't think of anything I do on the system that would need to know
all bout some arbitrary file somewhere on the filesysystem, so why
would this be useful?

thanks in advance!

Fred
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