[ale] hald

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

Hardware Abstraction Layer (Daemon).  HAL is the layer between the 
hardware and software on some newer distros (it's a think that's been in 
Windows since NT days).  You don't need the HAL daemon running unless 
you do things that periodically change the hardware footprint (i.e: USB).

hth,

-Jim P.

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> My box was doing some strange things the other day so I ran
> [ps aux] to see what was running. The only thing I could find 
> that seemed odd was "hald", running as root.
> 
> Never heard of it; ran a "find" and it turned up in /usr/sbin.
> this way:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 205448 Dec  1  2004 hald
> 
> Anybody know what this might be or what it might be doing?
> "man" and "info" turn up nothing and it's not listed in any of the
> reference books I have on the shelf.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
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