[NTLUG:Discuss] The Beagle dog on SuSE

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> ... 10.3 to be exact.  Wondered why my machine was running dog slow. 
> Thought I had killed off the hound some time back when we first had the 
> Beagle discussion.  However, looked at the process table and there it 
> was: beagled (and beagle-helper something).

You can try removing all of the beagle packages... though there
may be some dependency conflicts in doing that (not sure).

It usually stays dead when configured to be dead though...
at least from my own experience.

> 
> Went to Services in the GUI - no beagle listed.  Went to the init 
> scripts under /etc, no obvious mutts there either.  Fortunately 'grep -R 
> beagle *' at /etc surfaced at least one issue, SuSE had launched it via 
> cron.  Created /etc/cron.never and moved the beagle script there, we'll 
> see if I've fixed the problem and found all the culprits.
> 
> Anybody know if SuSE has any other standard ways of launching this mongrel?
> 
> This raises the question "Is there a way to prevent a daemon from 
> running something akin to hosts.deny for disallowing access by various 
> hosts?"