Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100327_212545, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I won't recommend you spend

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page for pmount-hal there is this: The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device

HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
/... but it might be useful to know how to use the HAL UDI. But I can't find directions for discovering its value. It is not the UUID of the drive because, according to the error message, the HAL UID must start with the string '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/'. Of course there is no top level directory /org on my

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I won't recommend you spend time on something that'll be outdated soon. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_212545, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I won't recommend you spend time on something that'll be outdated soon. I sincerely