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Mon Aug 12 20:06:32 UTC 2013


"HAL is daemon for collection and maintaining information from several
sources about the hardware on the system. It provides a live device
list through D-BUS."

As long as your servers are GUI-less I doubt you will cause yourself any
problems.

Dave Thacker wrote:
> I'm cleaning up some security items for PCI.   It appears that I've got some 
> RHEL servers with haldaemon running.   The NSA hardening guide recommends 
> disabling haldaemon, but says care should be taken because other processes 
> may depend on it.   What services might get nicked if I shut it off?

-- 

Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us



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