hal deamon

[James W. Bennett]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 7/19/05, James W. Bennett <silverhead at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Can someone steer me to the directory that haldeamon uses to build
>>/media device directory. I would like to change cdrecorder to dvd, but
>>can't find directory where this script is.
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>a quick look at  rpm -ql hal   and i bet you can figure it out.
>look down in  /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy
>10-storage-policy.fdi  is the file that defines the defaults
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>BUT you do not want to edit that file... if you want to make local
>changes you will most likely want to create a 90localadmin or similar
>directory in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/  and then place an .fdi file
>in that directory.  Hal should parse files in 90* after items in 10*. 
> If you edit the provided defaults in 10osvendor those changes will
>get reverted if you update hal. Add local policy in a new subdirectory
>in the policy directory that gets parsed after the 10osvendor
>directory.
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>-jef
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Just the info I needed. Thanks Jeff, You provided more info then I found 
all last night on the internet.