Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:01:30 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HAL tutorial and rc.d scripts Message-ID: <1161115290.23262.58.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1161114358.3416.7.camel@triton.mcneil.com> References: <1161114358.3416.7.camel@triton.mcneil.com>
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--=-23zQZvVIF/NnVqG+tvbN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:45 -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > I've just managed to get my system updated to GNOME 2.16 after some > difficulties. I understand that HAL is supported with this version, but > I cannot find any man page for hald or any tutorial for how it is used. > Can someone please point me in the right direction? There is a README installed, but in general, you just want to add yourself to the operator group (if not already there), and start hald. Everything else should just work. If you'd like to submit documentation for the FreeBSD GNOME FAQ, or add to the README, your patches would be happily accepted. >=20 > Also, I use the new format where I have separate files for each script > (/etc/rc.conf.d) and it causes a small error message: >=20 > /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). > /etc/rc: WARNING: $polkitd_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). >=20 > This is because polkitd and hald use checkyesno where the variables >=20 > dbus_enable - in /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus > polkitd_enable - in /etc/rc.conf.d/polkitd >=20 > They don't cause a problem since the daemons are started, but the errors > are distracting. IMHO, this is a bug in checkyesno, but is there a > workaround (besides putting them in /etc/rc.conf)? Probably not. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-23zQZvVIF/NnVqG+tvbN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFNTaab2iPiv4Uz4cRAp6aAJ4tIqGpU60i6hzFA26ehhCmbJtzPACgkIZh /am8BDVP0B1pdBipcZtEQqo= =JeTl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-23zQZvVIF/NnVqG+tvbN--
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