Re: question re list

From: kwhiskers (kwhiskers_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/26/05

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    Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:56:33 -0600
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    On 25/10/05, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
    >
    > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:09 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
    > > How does one get a question answered on this list?
    > >
    > > I have posted my question, including all the relevant details, twice
    > > and have not received one response.
    > >
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    > Since you asked...
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    > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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    > Craig
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    I have glanced at the article. Perhaps you think my question is not
    technical enough or off topic? Or that I haven't tried hard enough to find
    the solution myself?

    Well, I have scoured the documentation on hotplug, automount, udev, autofs
    (though I prefer not to use this method. It's not used for automountng cds,
    so there must be another way), etc etc.

    I have scoured dozens and dozens of pages on google. They are all pointing
    to the same ideas I have had, but no solutions are posted, or when there are
    any, they are complicated patchwork scripts that one should trustingly run
    on one's system. No thanks.

    Then the solutions are all ancient, dating from 2000-early 2004, pre-Fedora
    3, in any cae, which would lead one to suspect that this problem has long
    since been solved in the newer distributions.

    I have looked into supermount, pmount, usbmount, kde volume manager, all of
    which are either old software no longer being maintained, for debian but
    never released for other distros (leading one to suspect they are not
    required there), etc etc.

    I have spent at last 3 days on this working from afternoon into the night. I
    have run every permutation and combination of fstab, udev rules and whatever
    I could think of, rebooting, mounting and umounting, all to no avail.

    Finally, I rewrote the subject line, in the hope that the problem might
    pique more interest if phrased differently.

    So, what is the 'smart way' to ask? 

    


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