tracker-miner-fs(1) User Commands tracker-miner-fs(1)

NAME

tracker-miner-fs - Used to crawl the file system to mine data.

SYNOPSIS

tracker-miner-fs [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

tracker-miner-fs is not supposed to be run by the user since it is
started by its .desktop file when the user logs in. It can also be
started manually of course for debugging purposes. You can not run
more than one instance of this at the same time.

tracker-miner-fs mines information about applications and files only.

OPTIONS

-?, --help
Show summary of options.

-V, --version
Returns the version of this binary.

-v, --verbosity={0|1|2|3}
Sets the logging level, 0=errors, 1=minimal, 2=detailed,
3=debug.

-s, --initial-sleep=SECONDS
Sets the initial sleep time before crawling the file system is
started. If the --no-daemon option is used, this option is
ignored.

-n, --no-daemon
Tells the miner to exit once all indexing has finished and the
database is up to date. This is not the default mode of
operation for the miner, usually it stays around acting like a
daemon to monitor file updates which may occur over time. This
option renders the --initial-sleep option moot.

-e, --eligible=FILE
Checks if FILE is eligible for being mined based on the
current configuration rules. In addition to this, it will
check if FILE would be monitored for changes. This works with
non-existing FILE arguments as well as existing FILE
arguments.

-d, --disable-miner=MINER
Tells the daemon to disable the in-house miners it supports.
Depending on build options, this can be 'Files',
'Applications' and 'Userguides'. This option can be provided
more than once to diasable multiple miners. Disable in this
case means the miner is not started, though all miners still
register themselves on D-Bus and appear there, no actual
action is performed otherwise (such as crawling, setting up
monitors, or checking mtimes against the file system).

ENVIRONMENT

TRACKER_USE_LOG_FILES
Don't just log to stdout and stderr, but to log files too
which are kept in $HOME/.local/share/tracker/. This came into
effect in 0.15.3 and 0.16.0. After this version of Tracker,
logging to file (usually useful for debugging) can only be
done by declaring this environment variable.

TRACKER_USE_CONFIG_FILES
Don't use GSettings, instead use a config file similar to how
settings were saved in 0.10.x. That is, a file which is much
like an .ini file. These are saved to $HOME/.config/tracker/

SEE ALSO

tracker-store(1), tracker-info(1).

GNU September 2009 tracker-miner-fs(1)