On Tuesday 11 December 2007 11:58:38 am Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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 What other services will I lose if I disable hal altogether?