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disable tracker daemon for redhat, fedora and centos (and presumably rocky and alma linux as well)
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kill-tracker.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set \
org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set \
org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false
yes | LANG=C tracker reset --hard
sed -i 's/X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=.*/X-Gnome-Autostart-enabled=false/' \
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
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