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Hi there,

I'm working on a Linux server and with this command:

ps aux | grep hald

I got these processes:

68 3395 0.0 0.0 27380 4420 ? Ss 14:21 0:02 hald
root 3396 0.0 0.0 17396 952 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-runner
68 3402 0.0 0.0 12276 812 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
root 3403 0.0 0.0 19496 904 ? S 14:21 0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq
68 3411 0.0 0.0 12272 812 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2
68 3415 0.0 0.0 12272 816 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
68 3420 0.0 0.0 12272 812 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event5
68 3423 0.0 0.0 12272 812 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event4
root 3431 0.0 0.0 10180 640 ? S 14:21 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdc

Could you tell me the meaning of these lines?

Thank in advance,

Giordano Bruno

hald is the hal daemon - HAL is installed to provide plug and play - example: enable you to insert a USB thumb drive and have it become usable while the system is already up.

I can't say what those events are all about - that is a configuration setting usually for specialty devices.

Basically this is a desktop kind of thing and is okay- if that's what you are worried about.

Thanks for your quick answer!

I'm getting paranoid by working on this server !