clean chromium cache, cookies, passwords with script

[moma73]

What were you doing?

I tried to clean chromium cache, cookies, passwords with a script that includes bleachbit. #!/bin/bash killall chromium-browser bleachbit -c chromium.cache bleachbit -c chromium.cookies bleachbit -c chromium.passwords

What did you expect to happen?

clean chromium cache, cookies, passwords with script

What happened instead?

It didn't work because chromium was still running. Is there a possibility to stop chromium completely to clean cache and so on ?

Was there an error message displayed? What did it say?

Erreurs : 1 debug: process 'chromium-browser' is running

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[guysoft]

You can stop the graphical interface and then run it /etc/init.d/lightdm stop [script] /etc/init.d/lightdm start

[moma73]

Thanks for your quick reply! I did as you said, but now the kiosk page isn't running any more. As I don't had the time to investigate what happened, I installed the OS from scratch. I'll look out for a solution later, I'll try not to use bleachbit.

[guysoft]

That stops the kiosk so you can run stuff such as bleachbit

[moma73]

Yes, I got that, it's just that after running bleachbit and restarting the kiosk, it didn't work anymore. The kiosk page did'nt load. I'll try another method to clear the cache when I have some time. If anybody has found a good method for clearing cache and passwords, I'm all ears. It's a public kiosk and also I deactivated the password saving via the Chromium menu, I want to make sur to clear passwords, forms and cache regularly.

[asdf1nit]

Is your killall command working? That command doesn't on my kiosk. Try using sudo pkill chromium then clearing the cookies and things you want. Chrome will automatically start back up right after you issue the command.

Also I see your using bleachbit you don't have to use that you can just clear that with a simple script. https://askubuntu.com/questions/391858/clearing-all-private-user-data-from-chrome-from-the-command-line

[moma73]

Hey, thanks a lot for your help ! I finally got what I wanted. That's the script I use :+1:

#!/bin/bash sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop rm -rf /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/History rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Web\ Data sudo reboot

When I use "sudo pkill chromium", it seems that the process is not killed long enough to execute the script. But "sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop" does do the job. I had to delete the "sudo pkill chromium", it made the script stop at the second line, I guess. Also, I couldn't make the kiosk work properly with "/etc/init.d/lightdm start" at the end of the script, so I added the reboot. I wanted to reboot it anyway once or twice à day.

You might close the issue, I let it open in case you want to add a line.

[asdf1nit]

@moma73 glad you found what you needed.

Just an observation

#!/bin/bash sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop rm -rf /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/History rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Web\ Data sudo reboot

I don't think you need all of those lines. Since rm -rf is recursive, anything under /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default is removed after the 4th line making 5,6 7 of no purpose.

I'm going to keep this in mind and roll it into the admin-toolkit module in the future. I haven't had the need for this yet but I see it's usefulness.

[moma73]

Thanks for your reply.

I don't think that anything under /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default is removed, and it's not what I wanted to do, too. There might be configuration data in this Default folder, that I need to keep.

I just picked the "Login Data", "Cookies", "History" and "Web Data" files to remove them, I think it's not necessary to do it recursevily, in fact. And there is much more data that can be deleted in this Default folder, but I don't know what it is exactly.

The line "rm -rf /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default" has to be recursive to delete everything in that folder. See, what I mean??

[t-knapp]

Hey, thanks a lot for your help ! I finally got what I wanted. That's the script I use 👍

#!/bin/bash sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop rm -rf /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/History rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Web\ Data sudo reboot

When I use "sudo pkill chromium", it seems that the process is not killed long enough to execute the script. But "sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop" does do the job. I had to delete the "sudo pkill chromium", it made the script stop at the second line, I guess. Also, I couldn't make the kiosk work properly with "/etc/init.d/lightdm start" at the end of the script, so I added the reboot. I wanted to reboot it anyway once or twice à day.

You might close the issue, I let it open in case you want to add a line.

This one worked for me.