what is hald-runner?

invader44 · 12-31-2008, 11:44 AM

I am in the trial and error stage of making an Apache web server to run squid and dansguardian. I'm using slackware as my OS. My question is what is hald-runner, I typed ps ax to see what was running and that hald-runner is one of them. What is it?

Wannabe

djeikyb · 12-31-2008, 06:36 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software)

"HAL makes information about certain classes of hardware accessible in a uniform format. When a new device powers up within the system (an event known as hotplugging), it can broadcast an asynchronous signal on the system message bus of the D-Bus IPC mechanism giving details of the new device and its capabilities."

invader44 · 01-02-2009, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djeikyb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software)

"HAL makes information about certain classes of hardware accessible in a uniform format. When a new device powers up within the system (an event known as hotplugging), it can broadcast an asynchronous signal on the system message bus of the D-Bus IPC mechanism giving details of the new device and its capabilities."

Thanks for the reply.