Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:49:23 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82?= Grzyb <pg.devbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: dbus_enable and hald_enable Message-ID: <20100608224923.00005fbc@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20100608232938.d213f9aa.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTikpZ97F_UpTf9VBXjSwdjE2pJ4tEAhZFoMqi52D@mail.gmail.com> <20100608232938.d213f9aa.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:29:38 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:54:23 +0200, Pawe=C5=82 Grzyb <pg.devbsd@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello everybody, > >=20 > > can you explain to me what is it : dbus_enable=3D"YES" and > > hald_enable=3D"YES" in file /etc/rc.conf? What is their function? >=20 > Those enable the startup of the DBUS and HAL services via their > control files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Those services are often > needed for X, and programs related to X (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, and > many programs that have "Use DBUS for something" compile time > options set). >=20 > Sadly, those don't provide "man dbus" or "man hal" in a very > impolite manner. I'm sure you can find more documentation on > the web, but it may already be outdated. >=20 > If you ask what HAL and DBUS actually *ARE*, I'm not sure what > to answer - to me, they are both useless. :-) I believe HAL will be going away fairly soon, with its functionality being merged into udev on Linux. --=20 Bruce
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