On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 07:54:48PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 14:27 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been testing a new set of audit rules and have run across > > some > > processes that are doing things that might out to be changed. > > Typically, > > audit users expect a normally functioning system to not be noisy. > > There is a > > requirement to audit failed file access due to permission denied. > > What I'm > > finding is that two processes are generating tens of thousands of > > events > > every day. > > > > There is a /usr/libexec/tracker-extract process that searches my > > directories > > about every 11 seconds. I can imagine on a laptop that would be a lot > > of disk > > activity. Sometimes I use root in my home directory and accidentally > > create > > files owned by root. This leads to a lots of events on my system. > > Does it > > really need to run with this frequency? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271872 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747689 (closed as fixed !?! > ) yet today someone also complains about tracker I've given up hoping that we'll have a reliable way to disable tracker, so now I have added this in ~/.bashrc in all the desktop machines I use: # Kill with fire. killall -9 -r tracker-.* >& /dev/null Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/YONV4DC26HGXNB2YIYQQE73I2IDY26CT/
