On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:29 -0500, Steve Snyder 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? Run lshal and look for the block.device value that matches your drive. Then find the value of the info.udi key in the same block and replace it into the attached file. Then drop the file in /etc/hal/fdi/information and restart haldaemon. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: media-check-disable-cd.fdi Type: application/xml Size: 269 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071211/de433fe5/attachment-0005.wsdl> -------------- 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/20071211/de433fe5/attachment-0005.sig>