On Tuesday 24 February 2004 3:46 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Monday 23 February 2004 11:20 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:03:53PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >> I'm working on a system where upon boot the /mnt directory is created >> >> and quite a few subdirs underneath as well (floppy,cdrom,cdrom1,etc). >> >> Is this type of behavior part of autofs? I'm trying to turn it off, >> >> along with having /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 erased with each reboot... >> >> >> >> This is a mepis-install, dist-upgraded to sid. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Jeff >> > >> >Can you explain why you want this? >> >> I don't want this :) >> >> This is an install from a Mepis Linux CD. Mepis is a Debian-based live CD >> distro and it's quite nice, but some of the behavior is weird (to me) and >> I'm trying to tame it back to the 'normal' sid situation I'm used to. >> >> What's happening here is that it creates mount points (cd,cd1,floppy,and >> many more) under /mnt. I don't use /mnt. When I rm -rf /mnt, upon reboot >> they are re-created. Not that that harms anything, but it's an irritant. I >> removed autofs to no avail. I'm still digging through init scripts. >> >> Additionally, entries I create in dev (cdrom,cdrom1,and dvd) are erased >> when the box is rebooted. I don't find a /dev/.devfsd file, nor does mount >> report devfs. > >Look for a script that is run at boot time and that does the things you > don't want. Examine it carefully before you delete the steps that you don't > want. Those steps may be essential to the Mepis way of doing things. If > they are, you need to implement a replacement way prior to deleting the > Mepis way. > >Don't know Mepis, so I can't guess just how hard it will be. Have you tried >plain vanilla sid, or sarge, or woody? You may be embarking on eliminating >just the features that make Mepis quite nice. > >Personally, I run Sarge and think it's quite nice. And I get 100% support > from this list with no guessing by advice givers as to what I'm running.
I run a "pure" sid box. The Mepis derivative is just something I'm trying to debug :) That said, I'm going through init scripts. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
