HAL at command line

gibson79 · 07-03-2007, 11:19 AM

I'm a little lost here. Will HAL work at the command line or just with X?

Quote:

The /dev/cdrom line in /etc/fstab is commented out by default, as it interferes with HAL. HAL defaults to on, so if you do not wish to use it, you will need to chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hald and uncomment the /dev/cdrom line in /etc/fstab

Note that HAL will honor settings in /etc/fstab if a device is present there,
so you could technically have removable devices defined in /etc/fstab, but if
the fstab settings do not allow normal users to mount them (with the "user" or
"users" option), then HAL/dbus will not allow them to be mounted either.

The above is from Changes and Hints.txt

At the command line cdrom doesn't appear mounted anywhere when I put a disk in, and if I uncomment the cdrom line from fstab will this not interfere with the normal operation of HAL as stated above?

Thanks in advance...and sorry if this is a stupid question

rworkman · 07-03-2007, 05:16 PM

For HAL to be some semblance of useful from the command line, you would need pmount and possibly ivman. If you're at the command line, just use mount(8) and umount(8) :-)
I'm going to look into pmount and ivman with respect to getting them ready for 12.0 on SlackBuilds.org, but I'm swamped with "normal" life right now, so I don't have a time frame.

dive · 07-03-2007, 05:36 PM

Hal works best combined with a supporting DE like KDE.

You might also want to look at autofs for command line. Properly set up you just need to cd into the mount point and autofs will automatically mount. Use a timeout of 5 seconds or so and it will automatically unmount when no app is using the mount point (or you cd out of it).