I understand the the way to stop the constant polling of my CD-ROM drive (only used every few years to install the OS) is to disable the hal service. Is there any downside to disabling hal other that the lack of auto-insert notification? Thanks.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2005-May-05 10:24 UTC
[CentOS] Any downside to disabling hal service?
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 06:13 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:> I understand the the way to stop the constant polling of my CD-ROM drive > (only used every few years to install the OS) is to disable the hal > service. Is there any downside to disabling hal other that the lack of > auto-insert notification?Just edit /etc/hal/hald.conf and change storage_media_check_enabled and storage_automount_enabled_hint to false. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050505/8bef700a/attachment-0004.sig>