tracker-control(1) User Commands tracker-control(1)NAMEtracker-control - Manage Tracker processes and data
SYNOPSIStracker-control [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTIONtracker-control lists all tracker related processes when no OPTIONs are
specified.
To see the status of the miners and the store, use tracker-status. You
can pause or resume miners and also see which ones are running and
which ones are installed.
OPTIONS
-?, --help
Show summary of options.
-k, --kill=[all|store|miners]
This uses SIGKILL to stop all Tracker processes found matching
the parameter, if no extra parameter is passed, all will be
assumed. This is not advised unless you are having problems
stopping Tracker in the first place. This GUARANTEES death.
-t, --terminate=[all|store|miners]
This uses SIGTERM to stop all Tracker processes found matching
the parameter, if no extra parameter is passed, all will be
assumed. This is recommended over --kill because it gives the
processes time to shutdown cleanly.
-r, --hard-reset
This kills all processes in the same way that --kill does but it
also removes all databases. Restarting tracker-store re-creates
the databases.
-e, --soft-reset
A soft reset works exactly the same way that --hard-reset does,
with the exception that the backup and journal are not removed.
These are restored when tracker-store is restarted.
-c, --remove-config
This removes all config files in $HOME/.config/tracker. All
files listed are files which were found and successfully
removed. Restarting the respective processes re-creates the
default configuration files.
-s, --start
Starts all miners. This indirectly starts tracker-store too
because it is needed for miners to operate properly.
-m, --reindex-mime-type=MIME
Re-index files which match the MIME type supplied. This is usu‐
ally used when installing new extractors which support MIME
types previously unsupported. This forces Tracker to re-index
those files. You can use --reindex-mime-type more than once per
MIME type.
-V, --version
Print version.
SEE ALSOtracker-status(1), tracker-store(1).
GNU September 2009 tracker-control(1)
