Re: New modules in 2.14

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:28 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Its a common server case where physical access does not meet
> authorisation to do much. Tape drives tend to be near the physical
> system and people want to provide facilities to the tape folk (browser
> forms to indicate they actually visited the box etc). Neverthless the
> typical tape loader is paid like a 1st level phone support person, and
> is not usually qualified or sometimes even competent to  be offered the
> ability to shut down the system they are backing up.

Right. HAL does need an easy way for sysadmins and the like to lock down
[1] and g-p-m instances should cope with Suspend() etc. failing. This is
also relevant for e.g. storage (e.g. RH #177177) and we're working on
that for the HAL 0.5.7 release out in a few weeks. Yes, it's important
to fix for the corner cases you mention.

    David

[1] : Ideally, GNOME biased distros will use a HAL callout to read
default/mandatory settings from gconf and populate HAL settings (HAL
cannot depend on gconf for obvious reasons) so this is still
configurable from the UI within GNOME. But now I digress.