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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 14:01 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)Parent article: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
The name "desktop search" seems to suggest a single-user system.
the old "locate" ignored file permissions. The "s" in "slocate" is because its indexing also indexes file permissiones, and the slocate tool will only tell you about files you're allowed to see.
So what about search tools? Can I run just one indexer on a multi-user system?
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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 17:24 UTC (Tue) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]
The default behavior of tracker is to run as a login process and just index your home directory. You can add more directories for it to index (and also blacklist directories), but it isn't designed to index the entire filesystem.