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Now if somebody with more details can either deny/confirm, and if confirm 
fill in a pile of background, I'd appreciate it. (Yes, I know - Google. It 
is on the list to look up).

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, 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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