On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Jerry Tan <Jerry.Tan at sun.com> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >>> Meta Tracker searches files' contents and meta data. >> >> Does it follow symbolic links? > > yes, tracker will index it.
Ouch. An accidental symlink and I try and index several hundred million files :-( I hope this can be configured. >>> Tracker daemon will be started with gnome-session. >>> User can run gnome-session-properties to enable/disable it. >> >> Is it enabled or disabled by default? > > The community's version (tarball version 0.6.6 ) enable it by default. > So when gnome-session start, trackerd will be started . > we can disable it in sun's pkg if needed. Again, I hope this can be configured. And in both cases, I hope it can be configured globally by an administrator. (It's the combinations of the two that will be absolutely lethal.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
