Re: Open Files on Remote Server (intranet)

2011-12-19 Thread D Bera
I'm really new to beagle search. I have installed it on a ubuntu server and it's working fine, I want to use the web interface, it works locally, but when I try to access from a another client across the intranet it doesn't open any files. It is currently not implemented since ... we didnt

Re: WebInterface

2010-06-21 Thread D Bera
I am struggling to get WEB interface for Beagle working under Ubuntu 10.04. I have got through literally 100s of messages on this board, but I still can not figure out how to allow remote access to the search results. localhost:4000 works just fine. When I try to access the WEB page via IP

Re: WebInterface

2010-06-21 Thread D Bera
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Enrico Minack enrico-min...@gmx.de wrote: Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:58 +0530 schrieb D Bera: I am struggling to get WEB interface for Beagle working under Ubuntu 10.04. I have got through literally 100s of messages on this board, but I still can

Re: Creating New Filter

2010-03-10 Thread D Bera
In a sense, yes. What I want to be able to do is use a query like 'LIKE image1.jpg' and Beagle will return all images within a certain distance of image1.jpg. pHash uses its own database organized as a Then you want to implement an IQueryable that parses the query, looks for LIKE:xxx query

Re: Creating New Filter

2010-03-09 Thread D Bera
With that said, it seems like we could create our own backend that is just an IQueryable that merely traverses a directory and creates our own index. Then anytime a file is being searched for with the correct query syntax, we can consult our index and return the correct results. However, our

Re: Creating New Filter

2010-03-04 Thread D Bera
I am having trouble getting my Beagle filter to work. I have placed it in the correct location but when running beagle-extract-content it reports that 0 filters were loaded from my extension. Possibly (1) the localtion was incorrect (2) the mimetype or extension are not correctly reported You

Re: Beagle XML/Unix API

2010-02-22 Thread D Bera
I would like to wrote a client using Java, so that's why I think about the XML API. Say me if I'm wrong, but on this page I can see only C, C# or Pyhton, not XML ? If you look at the XSL based parsers in beagle/webinterface/.../*.xsl files, you will get an idea of the structure of the xml

Re: beagle indexes and cache

2009-10-27 Thread D Bera
does beagle cleans up its indexes and textcaches now and then? I mean it looks like old documents (now removed) still come up when searching... is there a way to clean indexes and textcache, or should I simply remove these directories in the .beagle folder now and then? It should, but I

Re: beagle indexes and cache

2009-10-27 Thread D Bera
does beagle cleans up its indexes and textcaches now and then? I mean it looks like old documents (now removed) still come up when searching... is there a way to clean indexes and textcache, or should I simply remove these directories in the .beagle folder now and then? ... I was worried,

About to declare 'unmaintained'

2009-09-10 Thread D Bera
Dear friends, You must have seen this coming. Lack of time of both me and Joe (personally communicated) has left the beagle project practically unmaintained. We wanted to do a final release, and Joe even managed to check-in some patches from the bugzilla. We have been talking about it among us

Re: How to search .* files?

2009-09-06 Thread D Bera
Is there a way to tell beagle to search certain plain text dot files, like .bash_history and .Rhistory? I tried to make an external filter but didn't succeed. Oops... no - dot files and directories are not touched - this is probably hardcoded in the code and cannot be overriden by any user.

Re: beagled exception in OpenSuse 11.1

2009-09-03 Thread D Bera
Hi, Sorry, I missed your email ... you possibly forgot to attach the traceback. Without any other detailed inforthis looks like mono error to me. - dBera On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dieter Woerzdieter.wo...@t-systems.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to run beagled in OpenSuse 11.1, but

Re: How to change max limit of search results ?

2009-07-08 Thread D Bera
Sometime I find my max limit is 100 , but sometimes 200. I see in your page that the default is 100. why sometimes 200 in my mathine ? If I can use beagle-query --max-hits 300 to change to 300? Apologies for the delay. The max-limit, as implemented currently, is not quite the right thing.

Re: How to change max limit of search results ?

2009-07-08 Thread D Bera
Use whatever you said ... beagle-query --max-hits 300 How to set it larger ? thanks 2009/7/8 D Bera dbera@gmail.com Sometime I find my max limit is 100 , but sometimes 200. I see in your page that the default is 100. why sometimes 200 in my mathine ? If I can use beagle

Re: How to change max limit of search results ?

2009-07-08 Thread D Bera
from a command line, you should get more than 201. - dBera I have set beagle-query --max-hits 500 in terminal of ordinary user . http://bildr.no/view/445521 above is my screenshot , it does not give 500 results . why?  thanks 2009/7/8 D Bera dbera@gmail.com Use whatever you said

Re: How to change max limit of search results ?

2009-07-08 Thread D Bera
Umm... (sheepishly) right. you mean I only can use beagle-query --max-hits 500 xxx to get more results in terminal ? thanks 2009/7/8 D Bera dbera@gmail.com That is not beagle-query (command line) but beagle-search (the GUI). Did you ask how to increase the limit in beagle-search

Re: beagle-query and uri's with spaces

2009-06-20 Thread D Bera
Thanks for your advice, but regrettably it just doesn't work: Total hits: 0. So is this a bug? (I haven't actually found any documentation on what should work). Can someone tell me how to use beagle-query with the search-term being a uri: with spaces (or other funny characters) in it?

Re: Null snippets

2009-06-20 Thread D Bera
There is a SnippetMode, but alas it's already set to true. However, in FilterMail.cs I found                             // If this is the richest part we found for multipart emails, add its content to textcache                             if (this.depth == 1 this.count == 0)               

Re: Locally stored evolution IMAP folders no longer indexing

2009-06-14 Thread D Bera
After installing Fedora 11, I noticed that beagle no longer indexes locally stored Evolution IMAP emails.  I do have both the EvolutionMail and EvolutionDataServer backends installed. I've been doing some researching and it appears that Tracker, another indexer is having the same problem. I

Re: Null snippets

2009-06-13 Thread D Bera
I notice that the snippet feature seems a bit fragile - that is, it returns null under various circumstances, even though the content is correctly found. The circumstances include (as far as I can see) any child indexable such as a mail attachment, some mail (but not all), and also any phrase

Re: beagle-query and uri's with spaces

2009-06-09 Thread D Bera
Thanks for your advice, but regrettably it just doesn't work: Total hits: 0. So is this a bug? (I haven't actually found any documentation on what should work). Can someone tell me how to use beagle-query with the search-term being a uri: with spaces (or other funny characters) in it? For

Re: beagle-query and uri's with spaces

2009-06-04 Thread D Bera
Can someone tell me how to use beagle-query with the search-term being a uri: with spaces (or other funny characters) in it? For example, beagle-query actually returns a hit like file:///var/SDRFiles/COMMON/Suppliers/MCS/Price List.xls - and I want pass this back again to beagle-query as a

Re: Make Beagle accesible from everywhere

2009-06-02 Thread D Bera
I obtained a different answer depending on the URL call, and if I invoke the server from 10.5.36.50:4000 I receive an invalid XML string. For example: FROM HTTP://10.5.36.50:4000 (Invalid xml string) 391 // This number seems to be a random one This looks like chunked transfer encoding to

Advisory: Some backends fail to start with Mono version 2

2009-06-01 Thread D Bera
Some backends might fail to start when mono version is 2. beagled will throw an exception like System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. --- System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path /.../Locks/lucene-xx-write.lock is

Re: How to test Beagle

2009-05-07 Thread D Bera
Hi, Wondering if there's a way to make sure, that Beagle, is running correctly according to htop, there are allot of beagle pid running like 9 sometimes up-to 13 I am very confident that htop is displaying threads as well. Ask it to only display the processes and there should be 2 - one

Re: File category disappears

2009-05-05 Thread D Bera
! Is there some change in logout routine in Gnome these days so that processes are forcefully killed using kill-9 or something? - dBera On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:07 AM, waterloo waterloo2...@gmail.com wrote: My File category disppeared. Addon is my beagle log file of now. Thanks 2009/4/17 D Bera

Re: Firefox indexer not working: files in ToIndex never removed

2009-04-22 Thread D Bera
-r 1 frederik frederik 6 2009-01-11 17:23 /home/frederik/.beagle/Indexes/IndexingServiceIndex/Locks/lucene-87e2d2d7eab46d37e08cb23db1c76b0c-write.lock Making the file writeable again, fixed the problem. I have no idea how these permissions got screwed up. Was looking and my logs

Re: File category disappears

2009-04-16 Thread D Bera
This is quite strange! It appears as though the Files backend is not running. And there is no notification message for it either! I don't know if gentoo disables debug building by default; if not, then my best bet is to run beagled --debug and observe the log at ~/.beagle/Log/current-Beagle

Re: File category disappears

2009-04-14 Thread D Bera
I mean Service Options - Index Information in beagle UI. http://bildr.no/view/388951 I have choose File in preference , but I can not find it in Index Information or search file . http://bildr.no/view/388952 Can you send me the output of beagle-info --status after File has disappeared -

Re: File category disappears

2009-04-13 Thread D Bera
Hi, I am not sure I understand the problem correctly. Yestoday I found File category in Index  Information of beagle disappeared . So I now can not search files in an ext3 partition. You mean the drop-down box in the search UI beagle-search ? Or the Index information menu item in

Re: future of beagle

2009-03-03 Thread D Bera
I've been getting the impression over the last little while that beagle's future is in question. Sad yet true. I emailed the list a few weeks ago asking if anyone is interesting in helping with development/maintaining ... no response yet. One thing in particular is that the evolution backend

Re: I run beagled , after a while it always halts

2009-02-23 Thread D Bera
It gives : Debug: Delaying add of file:///media/bak/oo/FILE/??n?¤ì???·.chm until FSQ comes across it ** ERROR:strenc.c:193:mono_unicode_to_external: assertion failed: (utf8!=NULL) Aborted how to fix it ? thanks This is a mono bug. It is chocking on this file with (possibly)

Re: case-sensitivity in searches?

2009-02-17 Thread D Bera
When I disable the Locate backend, beagle-query exits after ~19s; otherwise it takes ages, even when I use source:Files. Hmm... I will remember to check up on this. Debug: Parsed query 'source:Files' as prop query:key=beagle:Source, value=Files and property type=Keyword Debug: Parsed query

Re: problems with beagle-build-index after upgrade to 0.3.8

2009-02-16 Thread D Bera
Hi Jens, after upgrading beagle from 0.3.5 to 0.3.8 (both Ubuntu packages), I ... same file with the error process too big. When I use --disable-restart, it fails with too many files open, which I can probably fix, but I was wondering what might have changed from 0.3.5 to 0.3.8 to cause this

Re: case-sensitivity in searches?

2009-02-16 Thread D Bera
Hi Jens, while I'm at it, I happen to have another question, this time concerning the case of search terms. It seems that the search is case-sensitive, and I was Search is not (supposed to be) case-sensitive. Can you double check ? - dBera --

Re: case-sensitivity in searches?

2009-02-16 Thread D Bera
Sure, I did a simple search on a filename: $ /usr/bin/time beagle-query Reconnaissance --verbose Returned latest 4 results out of total 4 matches ... MimeT: beagle/x-locate-result Src: Locate As you figured out this has to do with the Locate backend. You can run beagle-query with argument

Re: Beagle-0.3.9 result pages - each result items take too much space.

2009-02-07 Thread D Bera
I 'm just installed the beagle-0.3.9 and found it is a useful tool. I have a question for you guys. The items (I mean the space between items) in the result pages (GUI) are too big. I see this under folders of the Images and documents except the conversations. Do you know why? Could you

ANNOUNCE: Beagle and Libbeagle 0.3.9

2009-01-26 Thread D Bera
Hi, Beagle and libbeagle 0.3.9 is now available. Besides lots of bug fixes, this release fixes a major problem with mono-2 where temporary files would not be deleted. THE SHORT OF IT --- Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes

Beagle: Looking for maintainer

2009-01-26 Thread D Bera
Hey folks, Beagle project is looking for a maintainer. I am currently the only active developer/maintainer but for the last several months I am finding it hard to devote time for this project. I will probably relocate by the end of the summer and then I will be completely cut-off from the

Re: beagle-thunderbird and tmp files?

2008-12-20 Thread D Bera
x86_64 on AMD Phenom SMP system. It appears that the mails in thunderbird are indexed over and over. (more items added than total count of mails in thunderbird) Won't this pollute my Beagle index? I get 1000s of small files per day so clean them out manually every now and then. What can I

Re: Weird popup in Firefox on just one site: Fail to write content/metadata.

2008-12-20 Thread D Bera
I get this on this site: http://sysadmin.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page A javascript alert pops up: ==8 [Javascript Application] Fail to write content/metadata. Would you like to disable beagle now ? ==8 Beagle works

Re: beagle-thunderbird and tmp files?

2008-12-15 Thread D Bera
I am running beagle-thunderbird 0.3.8-13 on my FC10 system. I experienced loads (10's of thousands) of tmp files in /tmp containing headers of old email messages after installing beagle-thunderbird. Are these files coming from beagle-thunderbird? If so: Why are there so many? Why aren't

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-12-01 Thread D Bera
Which to me means that beagled is working with this new combination of backends. So the failure mode appears to be when both EvolutionMail and EvolutionDataServer are enabled. I guessed something like this. Looks like some assertion fault in the native C library - which is messing up some

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-26 Thread D Bera
But still, why is it such a thing gumming up the whole of beagled? I would think/hope the failure of individual indexers would not gum up all of beagle. I have this in mind. This needs to be fixed - I think I can do this on my own. I will let you know if I need some more input. As it is, I

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-26 Thread D Bera
I have this in mind. This needs to be fixed - I think I can do this on my own. I will let you know if I need some more input. OK. Glad to help. Umm... I need some help :-( Can you disable only the Evo mail backend and see the behaviour ? Now disable only the EvolutionDataServer backend and

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-25 Thread D Bera
Might be the same issue as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557534 Sadly the above bug report does not have a lot of details. Well, indeed, yes, there was the SQLite migration with 2.24. Does/did Beagle access Evolution's data store directly though, or through an Evolution exported

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-25 Thread D Bera
Can you verify that the summary files are now in SQLite ? That could very well be the problem. Well, in fact, given one of the entries in my beagle-status: Delayed 0 (13/11/2008 6:09:48 PM) /home/brian/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders/INBOX/summary Status:

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-25 Thread D Bera
So, given that my indexing is so backed up, do you want me to leave it as such for further investigation or can I disable the EvolutionMail data source and restart the daemon again? Yeah. I have to ask the Evolution folks what changed in the new version. Till then, no Evolution email indexing

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-24 Thread D Bera
Which version of Evolution are you running ? There are a few Evolution indexing bugs that were recently reported. Also I couldnt figure out why that exception would stall other tasks. Something else is going wrong :-( - dBera ___ Dashboard-hackers

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-24 Thread D Bera
Anyone else using Evolution 2.24.1 facing indexing problems with beagle ? Which version of Evolution are you running ? 2.24.1 (sadly). Might be the same issue as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557534 Sadly the above bug report does not have a lot of details. - dBera --

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-14 Thread D Bera
Using beagle 0.3.8-1ubuntu2 when I enable the EvolutionMail Data source on Ubuntu Intrepid, it seems to back beagled right up (note the time on the tasks vs the current time below: Every 5.0s: beagle-info --status Thu Nov 13 18:18:00 2008

Re: not indexing when evolutionmail is enabled

2008-11-14 Thread D Bera
I would guess something is crashing in the evolutionmail backend. And that completely wedges up indexing forever? The usual crashes dont (aka errors and exceptions). But the ones that crashes in the C library sometimes brings the whole process to a halt. It is usually hard to recover from

Re: Default viewers

2008-11-09 Thread D Bera
It used to be the case that when I double-clicked on a mail message (I have mail-message-per-file in folders) it used my XEDITOR/VISUAL/EDITOR, which is gnuclient. Now (beagle 0.3.8, other changes) it launches firefox. What's controlling this!? Beagle uses the same settings used by gnome

Re: beagle index question

2008-11-05 Thread D Bera
1) Is there any reason why I couldn't have another process read the beagle document indexes and add lucene fields to the existing lucene document entries? I know lucene only likes 1 index writer. I'd be writing to it from a separate Java lucene app. There is nothing stopping you from doing

Fwd: Can't get 0.3.8 running w/o crashing

2008-10-27 Thread D Bera
Henry, from what I can see, the problem is in gmime-2.4 which is crashing evolutionmail indexer. Either disable evolution mail indexing or downgrade to gmime-2.2 as a temporary solution. Jeff, This is crashing in gmime (2.4). Any clues ? It might be possible to get the particular email causing

Re: errors: ...incorrect version (expected 50.0, got 39)

2008-10-15 Thread D Bera
on many commands (i.e.: beagle-config --list-backends) I get this these errors before the regular output of the command. Anything really wrong or I can just live with them? ** (/usr/lib/beagle/Info.exe:3317): WARNING **: Symbol file /usr/lib/beagle/Info.exe.mdb has incorrect version

Re: Beagle causing GTK+ hangs

2008-10-14 Thread D Bera
A technical followup: Roughly, libbeagle is trying to connect to beagle using the latter's unix socket. Sometimes when the load is high (and sometimes for reasons I havent yet figured out) this takes a long time. The connection happens in a non-blocking mode but sometimes the buffer at

Re: Beagle causing GTK+ hangs

2008-10-14 Thread D Bera
Hi Fredrik, Beagle suddenly does not seem to respond to connections on its socket anymore, causing all kind of different hangs in GTK+ application (for example any file chooser and Evolution's new message window take more than a minute to come up). Any idea what is causing this or how to

Re: Beagle Kmail for KDE4

2008-10-08 Thread D Bera
I think I probably already know the answer but I'll ask anyway... I run openSuSE 11.0 with KDE4. I also use the kde4-kmail package from opensuse. Does the beagle kmail backend work with this version of kmail? I sort of think that it doesn't but I figured I'd ask to make certain. :) I am not

Re: Update question: beagle 0.2.18 to 0.3.8

2008-10-06 Thread D Bera
I think there was a bug in xdg-mime that was fixed a while back. Could this be the issue? Hmm, I'm not sure 'cause I haven't changed the xdg-utils package on my system for the two tests mentioned above. If the xdgmime package coming with the beagle source package has changed - I don't know.

Re: Cancelled Task?

2008-10-06 Thread D Bera
Thanks. Some work needs to be done. I will keep you updated. I noticed some different issues with the firefox extension (IndexingService backend). If you could send me these files, then it will be helpful. I am really interested in the first line of these files which should contain the URI. Any

Re: Cancelled Task?

2008-10-04 Thread D Bera
Are queries returning results from these logs ? Indeed, yes. I think then everything is fine. The next release should contain a fix to remove spurious or unneeded tasks. So I was just about to go USR1 beagled and I found I have a number of them running: Interesting. If possible, could you

Re: search restrict to a single directory

2008-10-01 Thread D Bera
could someone please point me to the way of restricting a search for a single directory: beagle-query --inuri:file:///myhome/pdf/endocrinology/FMRF --keywords \ snail Its not --inuri:... - try inuri:file:///... You can also try inuri:FMRF - this will search in all directories with name

Re: search restrict to a single directory

2008-10-01 Thread D Bera
could someone please point me to the way of restricting a search for a single directory: beagle-query --inuri:file:///myhome/pdf/endocrinology/FMRF --keywords \ snail Its not --inuri:... - try inuri:file:///... You can also try inuri:FMRF - this will search in all directories with

How to set correct locale for external programs ?

2008-09-20 Thread D Bera
Hey folks, I am not too familiar with non english, non UTF8 locales, so I need some help in figuring out some details. For a lot of file types, beagle runs an external program on the file and reads its output and then indexes it. E.g. for external filter, for pdf files (output of pdftotext)

Re: feature request

2008-09-14 Thread D Bera
My request concerns the desktop search window: I propose that the search terms entered are remembered by the programm and that the line where to enter the terms should become a list window with the older searches to be opened again on request. It will be appreciated if you could file a bug.

Re: Beagle stop words

2008-07-25 Thread D Bera
I was wondering if there were any stop words (or non-words) that Beagle excludes from its index. Are there terms that are not indexed even if a filter returns them? Thanks. I believe its the list given in

Re: Benchmarking beagle

2008-07-25 Thread D Bera
I wondering if there is an interface or api that I can use to benchmark beagle performance. I would prefer a non-C# interface. I would like to look at query and update performance and space overheads. Thanks. You can use libbeagle (C API) or python-beagle bindings to perform queries, send data

Re: beagle-search applications display?

2008-07-24 Thread D Bera
For some reason beagle-search just shows an white icon with no text for applications (see attachment) Any ideas how to debug this? Tryed deleting the application index and let beagle create a new one but it did not change anything. This makes the applications backend pretty much useless. Is

Re: beagle-search applications display?

2008-07-24 Thread D Bera
For some reason beagle-search just shows an white icon with no text for applications (see attachment) Any ideas how to debug this? Tryed deleting the application index and let beagle create a new one but it did not change anything. This makes the applications backend pretty much useless.

Re: huge space usage

2008-07-22 Thread D Bera
It happened again and this time he got some more information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455739#c3 Seems like the evoultion backend is filling the logs with warnings. Good find. This particular case was reported sometime ago and I had checked in a workaround for that [1].

beagle error logging

2008-07-17 Thread D Bera
Hey folks, Need some suggestion here. Once in a while for some user, beagle creates these giant log files. I am wondering how to stop that. This is really trying to avoid worst case behaviour. The logging scenario is much better now than a year ago so the average users dont see this problem.

Re: beagle webinterface

2008-07-16 Thread D Bera
Hi Blackhold, I'm really interested on beagle's webinterface, I'm a systems admin looking for a tool that allows to search into pdf, odf, doc, xls files uploaded into a webserver. Beagle will work but could be an overkill. There are other standard solutions (e.g. htdig based) that could be

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.8

2008-07-15 Thread D Bera
Build fails on fedora rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=716898name=build.log ... ./Beagle.Search.Tiles/Tile.cs(351,48): error CS1061: Type `Gnome.Vfs.MimeApplication' does not contain a definition for `SupportUris' and no extension method `SupportUris' of type

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.8

2008-07-15 Thread D Bera
Build fails on fedora rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=716898name=build.log ... ./Beagle.Search.Tiles/Tile.cs(351,48): error CS1061: Type `Gnome.Vfs.MimeApplication' does not contain a definition for `SupportUris' and no extension method `SupportUris' of type

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.8

2008-07-15 Thread D Bera
Build fails on fedora rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=716898name=build.log ... ./Beagle.Search.Tiles/Tile.cs(351,48): error CS1061: Type `Gnome.Vfs.MimeApplication' does not contain a definition for `SupportUris' and no extension method `SupportUris' of type

Re: NEWB Q: Can beagle-query read search terms from a file?

2008-07-14 Thread D Bera
Hi Bob, I just started using beagle-query and I was wondering if you can send beagle-query a text file full of keywords to search on versus using the command line. e.g. beagle-query -f search_term_file kind of like grep -f filename * instead of beagle-query keyword1 or keyword2 or

ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.8

2008-07-14 Thread D Bera
Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.3.8, the next feature release of the 0.3 series. There are lots of new features, GUI changes and bug fixes; see below for the rather large list. Due to time constraints, we could not get the translations up-to-date for the GUI. Expect a

Re: Beagle-extract-content runtime error

2008-07-13 Thread D Bera
I'm running the beagle-extract-content program from within my C++ program using popen() to get a pipe to the programs output. I am then reading file keywords into my program from beagle-extract-content. The program is parallelized to crawl several directories with each thread instantiating a

Re: Beagle-extract-content runtime error

2008-07-13 Thread D Bera
I'm running the beagle-extract-content program from within my C++ program using popen() to get a pipe to the programs output. I am then reading file keywords into my program from beagle-extract-content. The program is parallelized to crawl several directories with each thread instantiating

Re: Google protocol buffers

2008-07-11 Thread D Bera
One of the big weaknesses in Beagle is that the messaging system between beagled and beagled-index-helper and between beagled and clients is a slow, bloated XML format. Its actually not that bad :-D. I used to think the same for a long long time. Then I did some experiments and it turned out

Hal script to index removable storage medium ?

2008-07-10 Thread D Bera
Hi, Now that we have the feature to index USB drives, data CDs and other kind of removable media, I was thinking if it is possible to walk the last mile and provide HAL scripts to integrate the feature to today's desktops. I am not much familiar with HAL scripts and how the nice popups Open

Re: Beagle content extraction question

2008-07-08 Thread D Bera
Hi Andrew, I am using beagle's beagle-extract-content program to extract keywords from files on my desktop for some later analysis. I've written a highly ... However, it is slow. I noticed that beagle-extract-content will spend ~150ms opening the Filter and only 10ms or so actually crawling

Advisory: beagle-search does not start in recent KDE3

2008-07-07 Thread D Bera
Problem: Recent beagle-search does not start in KDE-3. When started from a terminal, it will crash saying System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus.. This only happens in some distributions. Workaround: Make sure session dbus is running. You can check by verifying that echo

system-wide index permission with pam_umask

2008-06-15 Thread D Bera
Hi folks, A bug was filed recently about the permission of the system-wide index created by beagle-crawl-system in a system where pam_umask is installed. I have no experience with pam_umask so I need some help. The system-wide index script is created by a cron script and run as root. Since we

Re: CHM indexing

2008-05-21 Thread D Bera
I was hoping someone could give me a pointer regarding indexing of CHM files. The file names for these files are indexed, but not the content, as is the case for example PDF files. Is there any dependency which needs to be installed for CHM indexing to work? From what I gather, I believe there

Beagle RDF store: available in svn trunk

2008-05-21 Thread D Bera
Hey folks, Beagle RDF store is available now in svn trunk. Some more details at http://beagle-project.org/RDF It is disabled by default and can be enabled by ./configure --enable-rdf-adapter. It is a strictly experimental feature. Many thanks to Joshua for writing and providing support for

Re: Thunderbird extension: hdr.folder.path is undefined

2008-05-20 Thread D Bera
I am trying to use beagle svn with Thunderbird 3 (the alpha just released). The beagle plugin seems to be configured to be compatible. But it gives me a lot of errors saying: An error occurred while indexing. Error description: TypeError: hdr.folder.path is undefined What does this mean?

ANNOUNCE: beagle kio-slave 0.4.0 (for KDE4)

2008-05-14 Thread D Bera
Hi, A new version, kio-beagle-0.4.0 is available on kde-apps. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28437 This is the KDE4 version and was initially ported to KDE4 by Stephan Binner. A bunch of requested features were also added: * Show current status information. * Easy way to

Re: bibtex filter anyone ?

2008-05-11 Thread D Bera
Followup: Does anyone know about any bibtex library or tool in C# ? Or in other language that can be quickly modified to C#. ... If anyone knows of anything compatible please let me know. I will be extremely grateful. I added a BibTeX filter in svn trunk yesterday. It uses the bibparse

Re: Current features and status (desktop crawler comparison)

2008-05-10 Thread D Bera
- Index removable media - Removable media is cataloged (e.g. it's possible to distinguish different DVDs from eachother through their unique volume number and an optional user-provided string) Removable media indexing is partially implemented i.e. can be achieved using the tools currently

ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.7

2008-04-24 Thread D Bera
Hi, This is the third release within a week. Thanks to Mirco (meebey) Bauer, we figured out the reason behind beagled crashing but not quite aborting leading to hangs in all kinds of applications trying to connect to beagled. We have added a workaround in this release. It is highly recommended

Advisory: beagle-search, gtkfilechooser hangs; beagled does not respond and refuses to be killed

2008-04-21 Thread D Bera
Problem: For some users using the evolution-data-server backend, beagled might stop responding. This will cause beagle-search and other apps talking to beagle like gtkfilechooser or nautilus to also hang :-( The obvious symptom is 'begale-ping' will not return. beagled can only be killed with

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.6

2008-04-20 Thread D Bera
Did something change concerning taglib-sharp? Mine build of 0.3.6 is failing with: Making all in Filters make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/beagle-0.3.6/Filters' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `TagLib/Ape/Tag.cs', needed by `Filters.dll'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory ... I

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.3.6

2008-04-20 Thread D Bera
What's a feature release without a bad tarball and a brown bag 0.3.6.1 :). I will try to upload a fixed tarball as soon as possible. If you 0.3.6.1 uploaded to gnome ftp. That should work. *phew* -- - Debajyoti Bera @

Re: Old deskbar

2008-04-20 Thread D Bera
I would like to use beagle live search with deskbar 2.18.1, but when I There are lots of version mixups here :) Which version of beagle and which version of libbeagle are you using ? -- - Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle /

beagle-search on hardy ?

2008-04-12 Thread D Bera
Hi, I have a test ubuntu VM which I upgraded today to Hardy. But since then, beagle-search is crashing with segmentation fault (*). I would like to ignore this and believe this is due to some incorrect packages or some upgrade related error (beagle is buit from source but everything else is from

Re: beagle-search on hardy ?

2008-04-12 Thread D Bera
Exception in Gtk# callback delegate Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle the exception. System.DllNotFoundException: libgalago at (wrapper managed-to-native) Galago.Global:galago_init (intptr,int) But this has been the status quo for a long

Re: need help with testing: GMail live search (available in svn trunk)

2008-04-11 Thread D Bera
Yeah, it would be joeshaw.org. The URLs are predictable for google apps... it's always https://mail.google.com/a/example.com instead of https://mail.google.com/mail for standard Gmail. Thanks for the feedback. I have added configuration support for Google Apps account. Please test. - dBera

Firefox extension updated to FF3; testing requested

2008-04-11 Thread D Bera
Hey Firefox 3 users, Tao has updated the Firefox extension to work with Firefox 3. If you can help, please install it and use it for a few days to see if it works as expected. The main thing (and the only thing) that changed was indexing bookmarks so keep an eye on that one. The correct

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