Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:29:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82?= Grzyb <pg.devbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus_enable and hald_enable Message-ID: <20100608232938.d213f9aa.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikpZ97F_UpTf9VBXjSwdjE2pJ4tEAhZFoMqi52D@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikpZ97F_UpTf9VBXjSwdjE2pJ4tEAhZFoMqi52D@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:54:23 +0200, Paweł Grzyb <pg.devbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > can you explain to me what is it : dbus_enable="YES" and > hald_enable="YES" in file /etc/rc.conf? What is their function? 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). 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 I'm sure you can find more documentation on the web, but it may already be outdated. If you ask what HAL and DBUS actually *ARE*, I'm not sure what to answer - to me, they are both useless. :-) Removing the entries in /etc/rc.conf may cause problems for some of your programs, or may even make your X stop working properly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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