hald

[Jim Cornette]

Some Things wrote:
> I see another daemon I might not need.  The hald does this according to the rpm:
> 
>    HAL is daemon for collection and maintaining information from several
>    sources about the hardware on the system. It provdes a live device
>    list through D-BUS.
> 
> I guess this for hot plug'n'play ?
> The hardware on my box doesn't change, do you think I can safely stop it?
> 

I'd leave it running. This is a new daemon and replaces the 
functionality of other run once at boot programs/scripts.

Jim