David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> writes:
> The situation with removable devices is pretty bad. Redhat 6.x has TWO
> packages to "solve" it. They are magicdev ( part of GNOME ) and autorun
> ( KDE ).
> [...]
> autorun/magicdev is started when the KDE/GNOME desktop is started (
> startx or
> xdm/kdm/gdm login ). They both wait for an inserted CD and then mount it
> and
> optionaly run the file /<cd-mount-point>/autorun .
> They unmount and eject the CD when the :
> - eject command is executed
> - user clicks on "eject" in the context menu of the CD-drive icon
> - maybe some other cases I don't know
never mind that magicdev is murder to laptops on batteries, and always
filled my syslog with handy "no media" messages on every CDROM poll.
gads.
ian
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