Hi,
I followed the recommendation in another thread and removed beagle-crawl-system from /etc/cron.daily.
After I started my computer this morning I was surprised to see that “ps aux|grep ‘beagle’” still found two processes related to beagle.
How do I stop this dog for good? I don’t want to uninstall it as I might want to use it later.
Thanks, Stephan
I thought that just clicking on it would do. Anyway I uninstalled it.
I also uninstalled it, it also gets rid of that search box in the “start menu”.
You are right. I also uninstalled mono-core and if no I want to have the search box back again, it requires:
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
libm.so.6()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
libz.so.1()(64bit)
libdl.so.2()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libX11.so.6()(64bit)
libglib-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libfreetype.so.6()(64bit)
libXau.so.6()(64bit)
libgobject-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libXext.so.6()(64bit)
libSM.so.6()(64bit)
libICE.so.6()(64bit)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
librt.so.1()(64bit)
libpng12.so.0()(64bit)
libgio-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libxcb.so.1()(64bit)
libxml2.so.2()(64bit)
libxcb-xlib.so.0()(64bit)
libgthread-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libuuid.so.1()(64bit)
/bin/bash
libbz2.so.1()(64bit)
libjpeg.so.62()(64bit)
libsqlite3.so.0()(64bit)
libXss.so.1()(64bit)
gtk-sharp2
libgsf-1.so.114()(64bit)
glib-sharp2
shared-mime-info
libwmflite-0.2.so.7()(64bit)
desktop-data
libwmf-0.2.so.7()(64bit)
libmono.so.0()(64bit)
libmono.so.0(VER_1)(64bit)
wv
/usr/bin/pdftotext
libwv-1.2.so.1()(64bit)
**mono-data-sqlite
mono-web
mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0
mono(glib-sharp) = 2.12.0.0
mono(System) = 2.0.0.0
mono(Mono.Posix) = 2.0.0.0
mono(System.Xml) = 2.0.0.0
mono(NDesk.DBus) = 1.0.0.0
beagle-lang = 0.3.8
mono(System.Data) = 2.0.0.0
mono(NDesk.DBus.GLib) = 1.0.0.0
mono(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib) = 2.84.0.0
mono(System.Web) = 2.0.0.0
mono(taglib-sharp) = 2.0.3.0
mono(Mono.Data.Sqlite) = 2.0.0.0
mono(gmime-sharp) = 2.2.0.0
mono(avahi-sharp) = 1.0.0.0
mono(gsf-sharp) = 0.0.0.7
mono-core >= 1.1.13.5
**gmime-sharp >= 2.2.1
gsf-sharp >= 0.6
/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/useradd
/bin/rm
/usr/sbin/groupadd
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.2-1
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
If you want to fine tune the behavior of beagle, here are the “right” files to modify:
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-applications:CRAWL_ENABLED=“yes”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-documentation:CRAWL_ENABLED=“yes”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-executables:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-manpages:CRAWL_ENABLED=“yes”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-monodoc:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-applications:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-documentation:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-executables:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-manpages:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
/etc/beagle/crawl-rules/crawl-monodoc:CRAWL_ENABLED=“no”
No need to remove the file /etc/cron.daily/beagle-crawl-system as this script is checking files in /etc/beagle/crawl-rules/
And if you want to get rid of the beagle icon at startup you can remove the file “/etc/xdg/autostart/beagled-autostart.desktop”
Hi,
thanks for all the help so far.
I’d like to understand this issue, not just solve it.
What I don’t understand is: who starts the beagle demon?
I removed it from /etc/cron.daily.
But ‘ps aux’ shows ‘beagled’ running.
The owner is ‘stephan’.
Any hints?
Thanks, Stephan
Do you have a beagle icon on the task bar? If so left click it. In
the window that pops up find “Open Configuration Dialog” (or
something like that, I’m using OS 10.3 and KDE 3x) and click on that.
In the new window that pops up click on the “Deamon Status” find the
button labeled “Stop” and click it. It should STAY stopped even after
a reboot. If you ever need/want beagle again you can find the “Stop”
button now says “Start” and you will know what to do.
Simple, no remove everything or don’t install it or clean out the
cron required.
The way I see it is that there’s really no good reason to disable beagle other than the fact that it takes up a few hundred megs of ram. But who cares? I have a gig of ram in an old laptop and it runs just fine. I don’t see the point of spending my days killing processes just so I can keep my memory load at 300 megs. Let 'em roll. Plus, the nice value is at 7 so if you need that memory for anything else it’s going to give it up. Plus, it’s a really nice search program to have around to find stuff.
I just did a
zypper rm beagle
That fixed the pooch for good. I don’t need it running. I know where things are in my system, I don’t need a local search. Having an indexer running wastes electricity and adds wear and tear to my system.
Now this is cool… I updated Banshee media player… it uninstalled pretty much all of beagle at the same time.
For those wanting to uninstall beagle but retain search bar in start menu for search.
Install “tracker” by adding this repo: Index of /repositories/home:/anubisg1/openSUSE_11.1
Open Gconf Editor (press Alt+F2, type gconf-editor), go to desktop → gnome → applications → main-menu and change the key entitled “search_command” to read “tracker-search-tool SEARCH_STRING”