Re: Turn off Spotlight? Was: Re: Looking for the best OS for mom's G3

On 2008.05.11 14:06:39,
the amazing <tomstiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> declared:

> In article <iq7jf5-8r6.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Nollaig MacKenzie <nollaig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
		<snip!>
>> >
>> > I would recommend 10.4 with Spotlight and Dashboard turned off --
>> > provided you've got at least 384 MB RAM, the more the better. 
>> 
>> How do I turn off Spotlight? I guess I could uncheck everything
>> under 
>> 	System Preferences -> Spotlight
>> 
>> but presumably there's a better way.
>> 
>> I'm not hurting for RAM, but as far as I can recall I've never
>> looked for anything using Spotlight.
>> 
>> Cheers, N.
>
> From the Terminal enter:
> sudo mdutil -a -i off 
>
> Enter your administrator password when requested.  See 'man mdutil' for 
> more information.

Thanks to Tom and Taliensoft. I used mdutil (saw Tom's
answer first). 'man mdutil' didn't show a "-a" qualifier,
but 'mdutil -i off /' seemed to work all right.

-- 
Nollaig MacKenzie
http://www.amhuinnsuidhe.net