[CentOS] Centos 7 Install

Eddie G. O'Connor
2017-08-18T00:52:58Z

On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 20:05 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> 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

A more interesting question would be: Where would one go to completely
STOP these files from being created / cached / logged / stored etc?


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