Joachim Schrod wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
autofs is there but not activated. You have to activate it yourself.
Now, if you know what to put into the config file would you please let me know? :-) . I can't refer to what's in 10.0 'cause I longer have it installed and reading the man pages is like trying to understand ancient Latin. (Manuals are specifically written for those who don't need manuals.)
In /etc/auto.master:
/media /etc/auto.media
In /etc/auto.media:
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom sda1 -fstype=auto,umask=0,quiet :/dev/sda1 floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
or whatever else you need in mounts. (sda1 is an USB stick, as an example.)
Start with rcautofs start Activate at boot time with chkconfig -a autofs
That said, I think that autofs is not the best solution for CD/DVD automounting; ivman is probably better. autofs is suited to realize automounts for NFS and CIFS partitions, and there the configuration files above are typically placed into NIS, LDAP, or on an NFS share.
HTH, Joachim
Thanks for this, Joachim. I've made a copy of this and will play around with the info to see how it works out. Cheers.' -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1