How To Install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8.
What is cachefilesd
The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that are that are used by network file systems such a AFS and NFS to do persistent caching to the local disk.
We can use yum or dnf to install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cachefilesd.
Install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cachefilesd
Install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cachefilesd
How To Uninstall cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the cachefilesd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cachefilesd
cachefilesd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/cachefilesd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/97e77f5ce0c010a34fd36c9bd2004f7f3a38fe
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cachefilesd.service
/usr/sbin/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.fc
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.if
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.te
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/howto.txt
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/move-cache.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/cachefilesd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cachefilesd.8.gz
/var/cache/fscache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
