[CentOS] How to disable hal's polling of CD-ROM drive in CentOS 5.1?

On Dec 11, 2007 7:29 AM, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Given that I hardly ever use the CD-ROM drive, it makes no sense to have
> hal constantly polling it for new media.
>
> How can I disable this polling in CentOS 5.1?

Stop haldaemon:

service haldaemon stop
chkconfig haldaemon off