Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 22:29, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:06:23 +0200, David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > Automount will mount the medium as soon as you access it. I fail to see > > any use of mounting a medium when it is put, and before it is accessed. > > T

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:06:23 +0200, David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Automount will mount the medium as soon as you access it. I fail to see > any use of mounting a medium when it is put, and before it is accessed. > The medium will be unmounted after a 'user defined' time. I've chosen

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:27:15PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:12:26PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:54, David Odin wrote: > > > Well, the main problem I have with supermount and not have with > > > automount is the following: > > > I'm a

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Odin
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:12:26PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:54, David Odin wrote: > > Well, the main problem I have with supermount and not have with > > automount is the following: > > I'm a CS teacher, and the linux distribution in the computer room is > > man

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:54, David Odin wrote: > Well, the main problem I have with supermount and not have with > automount is the following: > I'm a CS teacher, and the linux distribution in the computer room is > mandrake. And, very often, a student use supermount to mount a floppy, > do som

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Odin
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:54:48PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:06:23PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > > > > The way of acting is the same as supermount, but it won't let you do > > > stupid thing such as e

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 15/04/2002 à 12:32, David Findlay a écrit : > Well can the debconf for automount please make it easy to configure it that > way? The default config doesn't do anything like it, and the documentation is > not clear on setting it up. Everyone runs around saying they want to make > Debian e

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:06:23PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > > The way of acting is the same as supermount, but it won't let you do > > stupid thing such as ejecting a medium in use. Depending on what "use" means it's not the user that is stupid, bu

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:06:23PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > Supermount is a very bad hack, and as the problem of letting a user > 'lock' a removable medium, if it is "superunmounted" when still in use. This flaw is notable, unfortunately. However, this is a matter of permissions really. If onl

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:17, David Findlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the > debian unstable kernels as an option? It works brilliantly on Mandrake, and > makes things much easier to use. Thanks,

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, David Findlay wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:31, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, David Findlay wrote: > > > Well can the debconf for automount please make it easy to configure it > > > that way? The default config doesn't do anything like it, and the > >

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, David Findlay wrote: > Well can the debconf for automount please make it easy to configure it that > way? The default config doesn't do anything like it, and the documentation is > not clear on setting it up. Everyone runs around saying they want to make > Debian easy for the

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:06, David Odin wrote: > Automount will mount the medium as soon as you access it. I fail to see > any use of mounting a medium when it is put, and before it is accessed. > The medium will be unmounted after a 'user defined' tim

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Odin
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:38:26PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:25, David Odin wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:17:38PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:25, David Odin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:17:38PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the > > debi

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread David Odin
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:17:38PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the > debian unstable kernels as an option? It works brilliantly on Mandrake, and > makes things much easier to