Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)
On Tue 27 January 2004 11:16, Lourens Veen wrote:
> On Tue 27 January 2004 08:06, Lourens Veen wrote:
> > Then there is autofs
> > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/?topic_id=142, can't find
> > a real homepage) and KDE uses fam
> > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/), however I don't think fam
> > actually mounts devices by itself, it just watches files. I use
> > (parts of) KDE myself and fam is almost always running; it's
> > never given me any problems with writing CDs.
>
> It turns out that there is a daemon similar to magicdev, which is
> used with KDE: autorun
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/autorun/). From the description:
I just found out that both magicdev and autorun originated at Red
Hat. It seems somebody decided they needed automounting
functionality, even if it meant a security weakness, and they
implemented it for both GNOME and KDE, as magicdev and autorun
respectively. It seems like these are separate packages, so I think
the best thing to do is to recommend uninstalling them wholesale.
I'll try and get a patch to README.volmgt together this weekend.
Lourens
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