trackerd in Gutsy

[Martin Olsson]

If you google for trackerd, this is the first hit:
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/tracker/trackerd.html

I thought that was the tracker program running in Ubuntu.
Thanks for the clarification.


Martin


Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:44 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote:
>> I noticed that trackerd is running by default in Gutsy Tribe 5. Is this 
>> information sent to Canonical? 
> 
> trackerd is a daemon that indexes your files so that the tracker applet
> can find content for you on your computer quickly.
> 
>> What else is trackerd logs used for?
> 
> See their site for the aims of the project.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.