[CentOS] Any downside to disabling hal service?

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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