Re: [Tracker] tracker on a desktop cluster?

["Chris Fanning" <christopher fanning gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> Chris Fanning wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> > > Chris Fanning wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > Hi :)
> >
> > Ok, I tried it and it works. Users are going to love this!
> >
> > I think it would be nice to be able to pass a different
> > /path/to/my/index_server/tracker.cfg to trackerd on the index_server,
> > or equally be able to do the same when starting trackerd on the node,
> > but I hacen't seen an option for this in the manpages.
>
> I suppose you could ln -s the file for now. We could add an option to
> load the config from somewhere else actually. Should be really quick to do.
>
> > One small problem.
> > I start trackerd on the index_server. And when I start
> > "/usr/bin/trackerd --no-indexing" on the node it reports "WARNING **:
> > Tracker daemon is already running - exiting"

> Just out of interest, why run another instance of trackerd?
One is running on the index_server:
su - uid
dbus-launch trackerd

And another is running on the desktop_server (invoked when user starts
tracker-search-tool).

> Yea, this tries to get the DBus name when it starts and it if is already
> occupied then it exits assuming it is already running. You can get
> around this by using different DBus session buses.
ok. escuse my ignorance but, as I'm running these instances on two
different boxes (trackerd and dbus), aren't I already using different
DBus session buses?

Cheers,
Chris.

> > So I must kill trackerd on the index_server first. Is there anyway to
> > get round this?
>
> Not really I don't think. You shouldn't ever need to run multiple
> instances of trackerd for the same user/session bus.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Martyn