Re: [Tracker] runtime checking for tracker availability

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/10/30, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/10/20, Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com <mailto:eduffy gmail com>>:
>
>     Until dbus 0.9+ makes into most distros, you can check the lock file
>
>     # lsof ~/.Tracker/${USER}_tracker_lock
>
>     this'll return 0 if trackerd is running by ${USER}, 1 otherwise.
>
>
> Oh, perhaps I was unclear. I need to check if tracker is _installed_ (I
> could check for existence of ~/.Tracker but that dir only exists if
> trackerd has been run). I can check if trackerd is _running_ by
> dbus.NameHasOwner("org.freedesktop.Tracker"). I could manually scan the
> $PATH for trackerd but that seems unelegant...
>

you could check for usr/share/tracker (or usr/local/share/tracker)

That would work on 98% of all systems, but I would really like a completely generic test...

Cheers,
Mikkel