I've followed the progress of udev and friends with interest, but as the project has matured it seems that it's become harder to do things I used to do easily.
In particular, I used to be able to pop a CD of saved email into my CD drive and have it auto-mount on /mnt/cdrom. I have /mnt/cdrom symlinked to the proper directory for a Maildir file structure which is recognized by Evolution, so I could automatically mount last year's incoming email, for instance, as an Inbox folder in Evolution simply by inserting the CD in the drive. These days, CDs get mounted as /media/<volume name> which is pretty hard to script back into a Maildir struct for Evolution, since back email CDs have volume names representative of their contents - i.e. all different. Ideally, what I'd like to be able to do is have the CD auto-mounted on _both_ /media/<volume name> and /mnt/cdrom, and I've tried scripting udev rules to do this, but what I used to do no longer works. I had scripts in /etc/dev.d which worked nicely for this, but /etc/dev.d is apparently no longer supported in udev. Any suggestions? -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | toast" | | (Cheryl Dehut) |
