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. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050505/8bef700a/attachment.bin