cannot purge cache

[mcatedra]

Hello, I am using Magento 1.9.3 .

I am trying to purge my cache, to solve some issues, but I am not getting it

I have cache disabled at the admin, but still , there are some directories and files at my var/cache

I try to delete rm -fr * but it lloks like Magent re-creates files and directories:

Is it normal that Magento re-creates them all the time, no way to have the var/cache empty?

Thanks

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-bash-4.2$ rm -fr *
-bash-4.2$ ls -altrhR
.:
total 24K
drwxrwxrwx 4 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:03 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 mage--f
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 mage--c
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 mage--8
drwxrwxrwx 6 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 .
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 mage--4

./mage--f:
total 16K
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293  130 Sep 13 17:32 mage---internal-metadatas---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_visitor_info_1
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293 2.5K Sep 13 17:32 mage---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_visitor_info_1
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 .
drwxrwxrwx 6 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 ..

./mage--c:
total 16K
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293  130 Sep 13 17:32 mage---internal-metadatas---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_url_info_1
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293 1011 Sep 13 17:32 mage---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_url_info_1
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 .
drwxrwxrwx 6 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 ..

./mage--8:
total 16K
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293  130 Sep 13 17:32 mage---internal-metadatas---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_url_1
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293 1.1K Sep 13 17:32 mage---241_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_log_url_1
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 .
drwxrwxrwx 6 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 ..

./mage--4:
total 16K
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293  117 Sep 13 17:32 mage---internal-metadatas---241_CORE_CACHE_OPTIONS
drwxrwxrwx 6 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 ..
-rw------- 1 u532788293 u532788293  196 Sep 13 17:32 mage---241_CORE_CACHE_OPTIONS
drwxrwxrwx 2 u532788293 u532788293 4.0K Sep 13 17:32 .
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[agreeff · Accepted solution]

Yes, this is normal. There are still some settings that need to be cached by Magento. In your instance it is caching the connection to store the user/visitor logs and the core configurations.

edit: if you really want to run with 0 cache then change the permissions on those folders so that the user which your magento instance runs with doesn't have access.