cd drive mounting

Mark Weaver mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Sun Dec 26 01:35:17 UTC 2004


C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:15 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> 
> 
>>As root edit the file named /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-
>>policy.fdi
>>
>>Locate the line that says <merge
>>key="storage.policy.default.mount_option.noauto"
>>type="bool">true</merge>
> 
> 
> Modifying the above mentioned file is a bad idea. Quoting from the
> fstab-sync man page:
> 
>        By  default,  the /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi
>        file specifies the policy - this file should never  be  edited  by  the
>        system administrator as it might get updated by the OS vendor for secu-
>        rity updates. Instead, system- or site-specific rules can be put in the
>        /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy directory.
> 

all this leads me to one nagging question. How the HELL can something as 
  clearly awesome as FC3 have such an anoying bug on just some systems 
and not others. This problem, at least to some extent has got to be 
hardware related since it doesn't seem to affect everything using FC3.

-- 
Mark

"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."




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