[opensuse] Automounter in 11.1 ?
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks? I don't see anything in YAST to help with this. Is this configuration all manual? -- Mary had a little key (It's all she could export), and all the email that she sent was opened at the Fort. -- Ron Rivest -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks?
CDs and USB stick yes, NFS no.
I don't see anything in YAST to help with this. Is this configuration all manual?
AFAIK, the automount of removable media is automagic - NFS automount must be manually configured. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 10:55 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks?
CDs and USB stick yes, NFS no.
?? I thought it was the other way round - that the auto-mounter (/etc/auto.master .... and so on) dealt with NFS and some kind of kernel event handler deal with CD/USB. A couple of years ago I recall this was done with IVMAN but I was told that the functionality (and humongous configuration issues) were now in the kernel. Certainly I see kernel log messages when I insert USB sticks and CDs. It used to be that somehow they mounted in /media/ The thing is, though, I don't know what went on under the hood. NFS, however, I recall having to do with the auto-mounter maps.
I don't see anything in YAST to help with this. Is this configuration all manual?
AFAIK, the automount of removable media is automagic - NFS automount must be manually configured.
Well that 'magic' isn't happening with 11.1 as it did with 11.0. How do I get it back? What's the appropriate 'pixie dust'? I'm still mightily annoyed that 11.1 did an 'install' and didn't offer an 'upgrade' option that preserver my 11.0 settings. But that's beside the point now - its too late. -- There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. --Theodore Roosevelt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
2008/12/22 Anton Aylward
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 10:55 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
I'm still mightily annoyed that 11.1 did an 'install' and didn't offer an 'upgrade' option that preserver my 11.0 settings. But that's beside the point now - its too late.
Live CD install? The DVD and Net CD Install options certainly do investigate upgrade possibility. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 10:55 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks?
CDs and USB stick yes, NFS no.
?? I thought it was the other way round - that the auto-mounter (/etc/auto.master .... and so on) dealt with NFS and some kind of kernel event handler deal with CD/USB.
Sorry, I misread your question - I meant to say that CDs and USB sticks are automagically mounted, NFS isn't. But you specifically asked about the _automounter_ ....
I don't see anything in YAST to help with this. Is this configuration all manual?
AFAIK, the automount of removable media is automagic - NFS automount must be manually configured.
Well that 'magic' isn't happening with 11.1 as it did with 11.0. How do I get it back? What's the appropriate 'pixie dust'?
That sounds like a serious bug - AFAIK it should just work out-of-the-box. Don't really know the details though. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 12:32 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 10:55 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks? CDs and USB stick yes, NFS no. ?? I thought it was the other way round - that the auto-mounter (/etc/auto.master .... and so on) dealt with NFS and some kind of kernel event handler deal with CD/USB.
Sorry, I misread your question - I meant to say that CDs and USB sticks are automagically mounted, NFS isn't. But you specifically asked about the _automounter_ ....
My bad, my ignorance. Since that exchange I've played around with autofs, /etc/auto.master and a /etc/auto.net I can now set up a symlink from ~/server to /mnt/server/$LOGIN and 'cd' there and WOW! (ditto for a few other things like videos on the server...) The funny thing is that as root, if I try a 'ls' I get a 'permission denied' message. I thought root was God. So that's working and hackable for more entries ....
I don't see anything in YAST to help with this. Is this configuration all manual? AFAIK, the automount of removable media is automagic - NFS automount must be manually configured. Well that 'magic' isn't happening with 11.1 as it did with 11.0. How do I get it back? What's the appropriate 'pixie dust'?
That sounds like a serious bug - AFAIK it should just work out-of-the-box. Don't really know the details though.
Now I'm wondering if the bug is in the upgrade-that-was-overwrite. I mentioned the event handler - ivman. I looked at it once and the config file was big and intractable. Well, it wasn't like most other config files, but I suppose it did the job, it was just that most config files I can understand and hack about. I also recall reading that event management was 'now' handled in the kernel. Sorry, I don't recall where. So I'm reluctant to just keep installing stuff on top of stuff on top of stuff. On that issue I have another question. I mentioned clearing out from /usr/lib files that didn't belong to any packages. But installing tools and then removing them means that /usr/lib fills up with 'orphaned' libraries. They DO belong to a package, its just that the program that uses them has been removed. Hence 'orphaned'. Is there any way to check for them and hence purge them? All I can think of is running ldd on EVERY program and library and building a tree and seeing what's not on the tree. That seems a huge undertaking. -- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,be regarded as a criminal offence. -- E.W. Dijkstra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 12:32 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Is anyone using automounter to mount NFS and - of course - CDs and USB sticks? CDs and USB stick yes, NFS no. ?? I thought it was the other way round - that the auto-mounter (/etc/auto.master .... and so on) dealt with NFS and some kind of kernel event handler deal with CD/USB. Sorry, I misread your question - I meant to say that CDs and USB sticks are automagically mounted, NFS isn't. But you specifically asked about
Per Jessen said the following on 12/22/2008 10:55 AM: the _automounter_ ....
My bad, my ignorance.
Since that exchange I've played around with autofs, /etc/auto.master and a /etc/auto.net
I can now set up a symlink from ~/server to /mnt/server/$LOGIN and 'cd' there and WOW! (ditto for a few other things like videos on the server...)
The funny thing is that as root, if I try a 'ls' I get a 'permission denied' message. I thought root was God.
root is God only on his system, to other systems he is but a mere mortal. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I have a sort-of answer. By adding usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 to /etc/fstab I now have a condition where, on inserting a USB stick, the KDE New Device Notifier widget pops up and tells me I have a new device. However it isn't mounted. If I click on the device in the notifier pop-up, I then get a Dolphin window that opens on the device, which is now mounted under /media. I'm not happy about this on a number of counts. 1. I'm having to do the mount. OK, its a click-on rather than a command line, but that is not good. If there is some other process waiting for the USB device its not going to see it just because its there. 2. It opens in Dolphin. I want Konqueror. 3. Each one opens a new instance of Dolphin rather than a new tab in the already open instance. I don't know what to do about any of these. I'm seeing occasional mention on the Web of "PolicyKit" controlling things, but haven't a clue and don't see anything relevant here. Does anyone else know? -- If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. - Horace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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