On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:50:27AM +0200, Jan Exss wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some trouble getting filessytems mountet that are symbolic links > only. I have some scripts running that copy specific files from cdroms > into specific directories within my home area. These scripts must be run > on different machines (hosted by different OSs) from time to time. The > problem is the not standarized mount point for the cdrom device. > > Solaris: /cdrom/cdrom0 > Red Hat: /mnt/cdrom > Debian: /cdrom > > Therefore, I have a symbolic link in all my home directories pointing to > the reall mount point. The link is called "cdrom". So I usually do like > this: > > $ cd > $ mount cdrom/ > > This worked fine on Debian since hamm or somewhat earlier. Now that I > switched to woody, it says like: > > mount: can't find /home/jexss/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > This is, in fact, correct, since /home/jexss/cdrom is a symbolic link > only. Anyway: Why can't I mount the cdrom drive that way anymore? Is that > kind of a security feature or did I just miss the point? I couldn't find > anything in the manual pages. > > Someone who can help me? I would have thought that the current behaviour was correct and would have been the same under any version of Debian. Perhaps your /etc/fstab has changed? > > Thanks a lot, > Jan. > > Jan Exss > -------------------------------------- > Geophysical Institute > University of Karlsruhe, Germany > phone: +49 (0)721 608-4679 > mailto: jan.exss@gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de > -------------------------------------- > FYI, it's common practice to prepend your .sig with a --\n, i.e. two dashes on their own line, followed by a newline, to clearly demarcate your post.
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