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 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’.
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.
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.
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”