[techtalk] Re: Redhat 6.1 - cdrom behaviour

[Telsa Gwynne]

Phil Savoie wrote:
> > I was looking today for about 2 hours on how to disable the automount 
> > "feature" in RH6.1.  It appears that every time a CD is loaded the 
> > filemanager pops up showing the contents of the CD.  This is not what I 
> > would like to see happen.  I would like to manually mount the CD when 
> > required.  Is there a config file to modify that will disable this?  I have 
> > had no luck so far searching on my own and was hoping some here could shed 
> > some light on this.
 
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:40:29PM -0400 or thereabouts, Angela Nash wrote:
> Supermount is an add on to the kernel.  If you don't want the device to use
> supermount remove the option in your /etc/fstab file.

RH don't ship supermount. I think this is the magicdev daemon, which
I dislike intensely. It confuses me :) Remove magicdev. It doesn't
break anything if you do this. rpm -e magicdev.

Telsa