beagled, the Beagle daemon, is the heart of Beagle, a system for searching and managing your personal information space. The Beagle daemon should normally be started as part of your system's boot process: For example, by an initscript.

Running beagled by hand is of use for those wishing to customize the Beagle daemon's execution via command-line options, developers testing Beagle, or those who use Beagle only infrequently.

--foreground|--fg

If specified, execute the Beagle daemon in the foreground.

--background|--bg

If specified, execute the Beagle daemon in the background (default).

--replace

If specified, the daemon tries to shutdown and replace any other Beagle daemon already running.

--debug

Enable extensive logging suited for general debugging purposes.

--debug-memory

Enable extensive logging suited for memory debugging purposes.

--indexing-test-mode

Run in foreground, and exit when fully indexed.

--indexing-delay

Time to wait before indexing. (Default 60 seconds)

--backend

Configure which backends to use.

--backend <name>

Only start backend 'name'

--backend +<name>

Additionally start backend 'name'

--backend -<name>

Disable backend 'name'

--allow-backend backend

(DEPRECIATED) Constrain the Beagle daemon to only use specified backends. This argument can be used multiple times.

--deny-backend backend

(DEPRECIATED) Constrain the Beagle daemon by disabling specified backends. This argument can be used multiple times.

--list-backends

Retrieve a list of all known backends. This list of backends can then be used with with the --allow/deny-backend options. Using this argument will print out the list of backends and then exit.

--add-static-backend

Add a static backend by path.

--disable-scheduler

Disable the internal scheduler and thus refrain the Beagle daemon from performing any crawling or indexing. Search facilities will remain enabled.

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