[101607] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Newibie: Mounting/ unmounting CDroms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steinbr@mediaone.net)
Fri Nov 27 17:57:33 1998
From: steinbr@mediaone.net
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:46:17 -0500
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Firstly, Thank you to all who responded to my request about automating
Mounting and umounting CDroms.
What I ended up doing was put two alias commands in /etc/.bashrc and in the
home/papa/.bashrc file to accommodate the availability of the aliass when
logged in as root and papa.
alias out="umount /dev/cdrom; eject -u /dev/cdrom"
alias in="mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom"
The reason for the umount command in out is simply the -u option did not
seem to work. This is alluded to in the man pages.
This works well when logged on as root but not when logged on as user papa.
I ran the linuxconf program that come with Redhat 5.2 (and 5.1 I thnk).
Under the
config >filesystem>access local drive>cdrom>option
I chose user mountable
This didnot help being able to mount and umount under papa.
Can I enable users or a group of users to mount and umount CDroms?
PS. I have not tried autofs yet as I am still reading up on that.
Charles Kaucher
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At 11:53 AM 11/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>If you wish all users on the system to be able to use them, place the
>aliases below into /etc/bashrc. If you wish only specific users to be
>able to use these aliases, place them in ~/.bashrc.
>
>Blair.
>
>On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:38:39PM -0500, Jan Carlson wrote:
>> steinbr@mediaone.net wrote:
>>
>> > In Windoze 95 I can take out and put in CDs at will. In Linux it appears
>> > that I have to mount and umount each CD. So I have setup an alias to do
>> > both of these. I have two questions.
>> >
>> > 1. An Alias seem to only last for the session., Can I put them into a
>> > script file that will load every time I log on? If, so where should this
>> > file go and from where should it be executed?
>>
>> Assuming your CD is an ATAPI/IDE as secondary master,
>>
>> alias out="eject -u /dev/hdc"
>> alias in="mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> And install the eject rpm from the RedHat CD.
>>
>> Then type in and out to your hearts content.
>> People were having trouble with the automounting packages.
>> Maybe they work now.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jan Carlson
>> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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