[CentOS] what writes to /root/.cache/mesa ?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 09:23, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at 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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