MDS Worker Not Found

Question

I've removed MDS worker (to get rid of spotlight). In my console it looks like launchd is trying to find it. Anyone know how I could stop launchd for searching for spotlight? (ha)

10-12-10 9:39:27 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[834]) Exited with exit code: 1
10-12-10 9:39:27 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10-12-10 9:39:37 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[838]) posix_spawn("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/mds", ...): No such file or directory
10-12-10 9:39:37 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[838]) Exited with exit code: 1
10-12-10 9:39:37 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10-12-10 9:39:47 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[843]) posix_spawn("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/mds", ...): No such file or directory
10-12-10 9:39:47 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[843]) Exited with exit code: 1
10-12-10 9:39:47 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10-12-10 9:39:57 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[844]) posix_spawn("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/mds", ...): No such file or directory
10-12-10 9:39:57 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[844]) Exited with exit code: 1
10-12-10 9:39:57 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10-12-10 9:40:07 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[845]) posix_spawn("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/mds", ...): No such file or directory

Answer 1

Another option is to tell launchd to disable the mds daemon:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

(The -w makes the unload operation permanent -- without it, mds will be run again next time you reboot.)

Answer 2

Try removing /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist.

Also, you could have just disabled Spotlight:

sudo mdutil -a -i off