Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:57:00 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

The other day a daemon program spewed 2 gigabytes of log entries, all
almost identical (the filename changed). The program was
tracker-extract.
 
Currently there are many programs that spew chat like there is no
tomorrow to syslog :-/

My favorite was a Windows process that repeatedly logged the C: drive was
almost full -- to the C: drive of course. Cleaning up after it
successfully committed suicide was fun.

We had a couple of programs that would politely check for disk space
before running. That worked well for years before the first machines with
TB+ drives showed up.  Back to the drawing board for the disk space
calculation.