On Tue 27 January 2004 11:16, Lourens Veen wrote: > On Tue 27 January 2004 08:06, Lourens Veen wrote: > > Then there is autofs > > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/?topic_id=142, can't find > > a real homepage) and KDE uses fam > > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/), however I don't think fam > > actually mounts devices by itself, it just watches files. I use > > (parts of) KDE myself and fam is almost always running; it's > > never given me any problems with writing CDs. > > It turns out that there is a daemon similar to magicdev, which is > used with KDE: autorun > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/autorun/). From the description:
I just found out that both magicdev and autorun originated at Red Hat. It seems somebody decided they needed automounting functionality, even if it meant a security weakness, and they implemented it for both GNOME and KDE, as magicdev and autorun respectively. It seems like these are separate packages, so I think the best thing to do is to recommend uninstalling them wholesale. I'll try and get a patch to README.volmgt together this weekend. Lourens -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key
