On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 09:23, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
Dear All,
I have several CentOS 7 machines (but not all of them) on which I have noticed that something gets written to
/root/.cache/mesa
I found that I had similar files but none of them had been touched since 2016. The data looks to be with 3d shaders and the only regular X item I can think of is gdm but there may be others depending on the system. What kind of video cards does the system have?
every so often (once every several days). It is my understanding that mesa is related to GUI (X11), but on these machines (on neither of my machines, actually) root never logs in to GUI X11. I may have remote root logins with Xforwarding though. Hence my puzzle: what is that that writes to /root/.cache/mesa? Some, but not all of occasions seem to happen upon machine [re]boots.
Thanks. Valeri
PS This gives me dejavu. A while ago when people started demanding to have google chrome browser installed on their workstations I had hard time to get rid of google's cron jobs that were writing where only root should - without explicit permission to do so. Dough. Somebody's software thinks it is smarter than everyone who uses it... "Machine learning" all the way ;-)
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