On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 08:07 +0100, Mark Jordan wrote: > 4) What does the HAL dæmon do? Report error messages? <-- idle > curiosity > > Sorry for all the questions. Feel free to get annoyed at me. Trying very hard not to crack a 2001 joke, but your last sentence sounds very much like his manner of talking... HAL, at least, takes care of managing some changing hardware (e.g. USB flash drives that may or may not be connected all the time). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.