How To Install cachefilesd on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on CentOS 7. cachefilesd is CacheFiles user-space management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cachefilesd.

Install cachefilesd on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cachefilesd

Install cachefilesd on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cachefilesd

How To Uninstall cachefilesd on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the cachefilesd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cachefilesd

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.